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QUEENS COUNTY 



IN 



OLDEN TIMES: 



BEING 



A SUPPLEMENT 



TO THE 



(SEVERAL HISTORIES THEREOF. 



BY 



HENRY ONDERDONK, JR., L 31. 

AUTHOE OF KEVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS ■ OF LONG ISLAND, AND BRITISH PRISONS 

AND -PRISON SHIPS AT NEW YORK. 



• JAMAICA, K Y;: 

CHARLES WELLING. 

1865. 



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FREFACE. 



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This work does not pretend to be ^- complete history of Queens County, hut 
rather a contribution thereto. It contains scarcely anything that has hitherto ap- 
peared in any of oru" local histories. 

Since the appearance of Mr. Thompson's history, the indefatigable and sagacious 
Dr. O'Callaghan has gathered up from the damp and dusty garrets of the public 
offices in Albany a most valuable mass of old and long neglected historical docu- 
ments. Having rescued these from mice and mildew, he has, by the bounty of the 
State arranged them in chronological oi-der in bound volumes, with indexes to each. 
The interests of the State require that these and other old documents should no 
longer be scattered through ditferent offices, but be placed in some convenient room 
under the eye of an obliging and intelligent custodian. 

Besides bis History of New Netherland, Dr. O'Callaghan has edited the Docu- 
mentary and Colonial History of New York, the Minutes of the Governor and 
Council, an Index of Marriages, and of Land Papers, the New Netherland Kegister, 
etc. Long may the State encourage him in these useful labors. 

After spending some weeks in examining the Archives of the State, I had re- 
course to the numerous bundles of old papers and to the records in our Town and 
County Clerks' Offices, to the Supervisors' minutes, and the books and papers of the 
Surrogate and County Treasurer. 

In the basement of the City Hall, New York, is a rich flacer well worth 
working. It consists of court minutes, rcugh drafts, briefs and various other papers 
of lawyers practising in the Supreme Court, which were left in custody of the clerk. 
They illustrate the history not of Queens County only, but of all the other coun- 
ties in the State, especially the proceedings against the tories of the Revolution. 

Much of the present volume has never before been in print. I have made lib- 
eral extracts from old and scarce newspapers, my design being to present the reader 
a picture of "olden times," and let Antiquity step on the stage and speak for itself 
while I stand behind the scenes and move the panorama of nearly two centuries 
thereby exhibiting our ancestors as they thought, spoke and acted. 

The earlier records of Flushing, the first volume of the Hempstead records, and 
the first volume of the Supervisors' minutes (with probably many other records) are 
lost ; but there must yet remain in private hands some records of our Agricultural, 
Educational, Literary, Medical and Eeligious, Associations, now extinct. These with 
all similar historical documents and local newspapers, should be sent to the rooms of 
the Long Island Historical Society, of which Henry R. Stiles, M. D., is Librarian, 
for safe preservation and easy reference. 

Although the history of Queens County remains to be written, the following, 
among other publications, show that the towns have not been altogether neglected. 



Denton's Biiof Description, Kiker's Newtown, Mandeville's Flnsliiug, JIacJonald's 
Presbyterian Church, Jamaica, the Townsend Memorial, Woodbridge's rresbvtirian 
Church, IJempstead, Carmichael's History of St. George's Church, Garretson's His- 
tory of the Dutch Cliurchcs, Prince's Agiicultural History, the Journals of travell- 
ing i)reachers such as Bownas, Chalkey, Hicks and others. The Gazetteers of Spof- 
ford and French arc worth consulting ; the latter especially, as it contains most val- 
uable statistics of our county. Our historians have hitherto paid little attention to 
the industrial pursuits of our county, such as farming, gardening, manufactures and 
fishing, nor to our various and i)eculiar sports and amusements, modes of life, usa- 
ges, customs, manners, jirogrcss of rcligiim, morals, education, etc. 

One sad chapter in any future history of Queens County must be consecrated to 
the memory of her sons who have sacrificed their lives in maintaining the integrity 
of the Union. 

The public will be ])leased to hear that Aldex J. Spoon er has issued pro- 
posals for another History of our Island. 

Many thanks are due Mr. Charles Welling and his assistant, 31r. Joseph "Man- 
waring, for their patience and care in passing these sheets through the jiress. A 
few errata are noted at the end of tht; volume. 

Every name in this book appears in the index, where all the variations of 
spelling are reduced to one. Some names occur so frequently that .it was not easy 
•to note every jiage. 

The second series of this work will contain Sufloik and Kings Counties in "olden 
times," with the bibliography of Long Island, and annals of tlic Keformed Protes- 
tant Dutch Church in Queens County. 

J.\MAic.\, L. I , April, 18C5. 



QUEENS COUNTY IN OLDEN TIMES. 



1639, Jan. 1.3.— The Eockaway Indian.'^ .=ol(l to 
the Dutch AVest India Co. a tract of land embra- 
cing Hempstead, reserving to themselves the right 
of fishing, planting maize and himting. . 

1C40, May 10. — Some emigrants ftom- Lynn 
■\\-eut over to the head of Co^w l^ay and pulled down 
the Dutch arms that were nailed to a tree, and car- 
ved a fool's face in their stead ; but the Sachem 
Penawitz -who had sold the land to the Dutch, gave 
information of the tr>;.spass;, whereupon a force of 
2o."soldiers wa.s dispatched by ->vater from N. Y. 
who carried off the trespassers and thus broke up 
the settlement. — Colonial History, 2 : 145. 

164.3, Oct. 24. — Long Island is destitute of inhab- 
itants and stock, except a few insignificant places 
over against the JLain, which are about to be aban- 
doned. . The Snglish have not escaped, . They 
too, except one place, are all murdered and burnt, 
by the Indians.— C'oL His., 1 : 190. 

1643, liar. 4. — The season of hunting, fishing 
and planting being now at hand, the Indians were 
anxious for jieace. The great Sachem of the Ca- 
narsee, tribe, Penawitz sent to enquire of the Dutch 
why they had murdered his people who had never 
injured them. Jacob Olferz and Jacob I'eterze 
De A'ries went to KockaMay and arrived at the 
wigwam of the one-eyed chief who entertained them 
with ovsters and fish. His residence was some 
miles from the shore surrounded by 200 or 300 
warriors, the owners of 30 houses. A 2)eace was 
made. — Be Tries, p.ll2. 

1641, April. — Seven savages were an-ested at 
Hempstead (where an English clergyman, Mr, 
Pordham, was governor) on. a, charge of killing two 
or three pigs, though it was afterwards discovered 
that some Englishmen had done it. Fordliam sent 
word to Gov. Kieft at New York, of the arrest &ud 
that he had the Indians confined in a cellar. Kieft 
sent Underbill and Opdyk, with 15 or 16 soldiers 
wlio killed 3 of the 7 Indians in. the cellar. They 
took the other 4 witli tiitni ia c. sailing boat, 2 of 
whom were towed along by a string, around their 
nocks till they were di-owned, while the 2 survivors 
were detafncd prisoners at the Fort till they were 
delivered to the soldiers who soon dispatched them 
■B-ith knives. The savages desired to dance the 
Kintc-Kacy",, a religio-ua observance among them 
before death.--- Doc. His., 4 : 105. 



(Another version of apparently the same affair, 
the precediug^being imtteu by an opponent of the 
governor.) 

" We were advised that Penawitz was secretly 
waging war against us with his tribe who killed some 
of our people and set their houses on fire. It was 
resolved to send thither a troop of 120 men — the 
Bvu-ghers under their company, the English imder 
C'apt. Jflhn L'nderhill, the old soldiers under Peter 
Cock — all commanded by Mr. LaMontagn^, to piro- 
ceed from N. Y. in 3 yacht.s, land in Schout's bay 
and march toward Hempstead, where there is an 
English colony dependent on us. Some who had 
been sent forward in advance dexterously killed 
an Indian who was out as a spy. Our force formed 
themselve& in 2 di\-isons, UuderhiU with 14 English 
toward, the smaller, and 80 men toward the lar- 
ger -s-illage named Matsepe.* Both were success- 
ful, killing about 120 Indians. One of ours re- 
mained on the field and 3 were wounded." — Col. 
His,. 1 : 186. 

1645, J/«^ 24. — The Sachem of Mockgonnekouck 
with 47 armed ravages appeared at, the Fort in N.. 
Y. to offer their services to the government. Where- 
upon it was resolved that the Sachem should em- 
bark in one of the Company's yachts properly vict- 
ualed and sail to a spot where he may land his 
spies to learn where the enemy is to be foiuid. 
Aft 3r which he must destroy them and return from 
Long Island to the Fort for liis recompence. 

1645, June 10. — Wm. Gerritse sings libelous 
songs against the Eev. Francis Doughty, for which 
he is sentenced to be tied Jto<the May-pole. — Albany 
liccords. . 

1647, Atig. 23.— Delegates from Hempstead ap- 
peared at N. Y. who say that the savages around 
them are being lured by Indians from the Main to 
make an attack on the people of Hempstead and 
destroy their \-illage. The Secretarj' is ordered to 
go there in a yacht, and aseertam from the Indians 
if the report be true and take with him a piece of 
cloth and some trifles for the chief and ofi'er a re- 
newal of friendship. 

1651, Sej}. 14. — The Indians on the Main pro- 
cuiing tire-arms from the whites came over to L. I., 

'The great river called Massepe between Jamaica and 
Hempstead. — Jam. Record, 1 : 4. 



QUEENS COUNTY 



Blau^htcrid aud drove oft' tlic cattle of tlic Hemp- 
stead pcojilc. Tlio daiuajies are more than 1,000 
guilders. — Col His., 2 : 157. 

1G51, Sep. 25. — Ilenipstcad produce.^ from the 
proceeds of their servants' labor, com, beef, pork, 
butter, tobacco and .^tave:*, -wliich they exchange 
for liquors aud merchandise.— C'oi. //t'a-., -2 : 158. 

1653.— .Sam'I. Jlayo's ve^^scl (of Banistable) 
employed in coiiveyin<r the goods of the IJev. ilr. 
Lcvcrich from .Sandwich to Oysferbay, was seized 
at Hempstead Harbor, by Baxter, under the au- 
thorities of Rhode Island. [JIayo died at Oyster- 
bay.] 

1G55, Aj)!'!! 2. — 'Wni. Leverieh and other Eng- 
lish settlers at Oysterb.ij-, are warned off the Dutch 
ten-itorics. — Col. Uis., 2 : ICO. 

1655, Mdi/ IS. — Daily strange reports about 
the ludiaus are recei\ed at (Jravesend, from Hemp- 
stead, Newtown, aud elsewhere on L. I., that they 
intend to rout out the Dutch, and that tiie house 
and plantation of AVm. Hallet, west of Hellgate, 
has been laid waste. Hence it behoves the Eng- 
lish to separate from the Dutch. Stuyvcsant ad- 
vises the Dutch and English of Gravesend to re- 
main together and keep good watch. He will 
spare them some soldiers if thej' need thcjii. 

1655, May 28. — The planters at Oysterl)ay, 
through 3Ir. Leverieh, desire- to be annexed to 
New Haven Colony. — Hwulhi, 2 : 141. 

1655, I\or. 27. — Tackapousha, in the name of 
the L. I. Indians, appears at the Fort (N. Y,") and 
proflfcrs to the Dutch a continuance of his fidelity, 
and says not one of the L. I. Indians was con- 
cerned in the late massacre at Neiv Amsterdam. 

1G5G, Jan. 8. — John Smith, who had, by his 
own confession, stolen pigs at Newtown, is con- 
ducted to the place where justice U administered, 
and beaten severely \\\\\\ rods, then marked, aud 
banished forever, as an example to others. 

165G, Jan. 15. — Domincs Drisius and Jlegapo- 
lensis, write to Holland for a minister to supply the 
place of More, who has left Newtown. 

1656, Mar. 12. — In the articles of peace with 
the Indians, it is agreed that all shall be forgotten 
since 1015. — Hempstead lleeonls, p. 22. 

1656. — "\Vm. AVickcndani,* a cobbler, from 
Kliodc Island, came to Flushing and began to 
preach, and went with the peojde into the river and 
dipped them. I^'or this he was fined t^lOO and or- 
dered to be banished. As he was poor and had a 
family the fine was remitted. Hallet, the Sherift", 
had dared to collect conventicles in his house, and 
had jierniitted "Wiekendam to preach and adminis- 
ter the sacraments, though not called tin reto by 
any ecclesiastical authority. For this he wai re- 
moved from oilice and fined £oO. 

•He died Feb. 3d, 1C70, and left three dauglittrs. 



1657. — "At Flushing they have heretofore had 
ii I're.-liyterian jaeaclier who conformed to the 
Dutch Clinreh, but many of the people became en- 
dowed with divei-s opinions and al)seuted them- 
selves from ju-eaching, nor woidd jiay the preacher 
his promised stii)end, so that he was obligc-d to 
leave, and went to Virginia. Now they have been 
some j-cars without a minister. Ijist Vear one 
AVickendam, a fomenter of error, canu; there and 
stated that he was couunissioued by Christ. He 
began to preach and then went with the people into 
the river and dli)]ied them. This becomin^r known 
to the (iovenior, the Fiscaal ])roceeded to Flushing 
and brought him alonj;. He was banished the 
I'rovince.*' — Hoc. His., '.i : 106. 

1657. — '■ At Hempstead there are some Indepen- 
dents ; also many of the Dutch persuasion and 
Presbytei-ians. They ha\e a I'resbyterian preach- 
er, Richard Denton, an honest, pious and learned 
man, who has in all things confonued to the Dutch 
cluu-ch. The Independents listen attentively to 
his preaching, but when he begins to baptize the 
children of parents who are not members of the 
church, they sometimes burst out of the chiu'ch." 
— Dm. His., 3 : 107. 

1G57. — "At Newtown the people are mostly 
Indcjiendents, and have .lohaniU'S More, who 
preaches well but administers no sacraments, and 
has thus continued many years. There arc also 
many IVesbyterians, hut are not able to maintain a 
minister." — Doe. His., 3 : 107. 

1657, Mar. 8. — The ship Prince Mmirice, with 
GO soldiers and a cargo of Dutch goods aud emi- 
grants, (180 souls in all) w;is wrecked on a cold, 
snowy night oft' Fire Island. All were saved, aud 
by the friendlv aid of the Indians, reached N. Y, 
by \imd.—Cof. His., 3 : 3 15. 

1657, Jail/ 17. — Got. Stuyvcsant, at his house 
in Fort Amsterdam, writes to the Magistrate of 
Hempstead as follows : Lo\ing Vriends : — lieforc 
my departure from you I was in liqp<'s of a good 
act among you, both in settling of Mr. Denton's 
continuance among you according to afO'eement, 
aud of the tenths for the ju-eseut year. But being 
in haste back and ready for my retm-n, both were 
broken oft" by -some tmlmlent spirits, if in the 
name of the whole town or any one I am yet igno- 
rant, but uot satisfied. Therefore you may be 
pleased to tinderstand that we as yet expect the 
tenths "upon the -field for the year present, and (ac- 
cording to the vnliu' of them) for the year past. — 
This therefore is ordered, that before the gathering 
of the crop you shall give timely notice, so that we 
may send a man for what is the I'atron's due and 
for the mhiister. You nil do know that 5Ir. Robt. 
Fordham, sometime minister 'of Hempstead, did 
leave the place, and also the exercise of the minis- 
try, without our wish or knowledge, and for little 
or no reason. 'I'herefoi-e wc cannot admit him in 
such a rr.aufler of 'coming again. 

1657, JttJi/ 25.— Rich. G ildcrsleeve, in behalf of 



IX OLDEN TIMES. 



the town of HempstfaA, replied to tlie preceding : 
llielit Worsliipfnl — Yours of the 17th we hnvc 
received wherein we understand you are not satis- 
fied; lieamig speeclies from some private persons 
not emplovcd Viy the town. The town does not 
o■n^l what tliey have said. "Wo hope according to 
the agreement made for 100 skcepels of \\-lieat for 
the tenths, you will be content. The which the 
town agreed" with you and are willing to perfonn. 
Our desires are to embrace 'Mv. Denton's ministry, 
if God be pleased to continue him among us. As 
for yourself we have had sufficient experience of 
j'our willingness, and doubt not you are the same 
by your late free and noble proifer. Wc hope you 
wUl not take exceptions against the whole of us for 
the extravagant speeches of some individuals, for 
so it sometimes will fall out where a general vote 
is had. "We have sent Mr. Seaman, the bearer 
hereof, who shall further inform yonr Worship. 

16.37, Jnli/ 29. — C4ov. Stnyvesant reiilies to the 
preceding as follows : Loving Friends — Your let- 
ter, by Mr. Seaman and hi« information, have-given 
us full satisfaction. About the continuance of ilr. 
Denton among- you, we shall use all the endeavors 
■vve can. If he cannot bo' persuaded you must look 
for another able and godly man whereunto we 
shall contribute what is in our power. Doc. IlJs., 
3 : 189. 

16.5S, Jiili/ 10.— At a ToAvn meeting, Hemp- 
stead, it is agreed that Eich. tvildersleeve shall go 
to Manhattans to a^ree'with the Gov. concerning 
tithes, not to exceed 100 schepels of wheat, and to 
be delivered (if required) at the Tov,-n harbor. — 
Town Itccords, p. 32. 

16.58, Oct 3, was Ilumiliation day, new style. — 
Hempstead Records. 

165S.— Ten shillings is voted those who helped 
to quench the fire when the to-mi (Hempstead) v^■as 
endangered. Itccords, 

16.59. — Thos Langdon, Hempstead, killed 10 
wolves, and in 1661, he killed 10 more. 

1661, Jan. S. — ^Do. Drisius preached at Jamaica 
to correct the irregularities of the itinerant Quakers 
and other fouatics. 

1061, Feb. 18. — Kobt. Hobbs purchased of Wm. 
Hallet a house, garden, orchard and 2 acres of land 
in Flushing, but he refused to give a deed and yet 
sued for the money, now Tobias Feeks claimed the 
laud, yet the magistrates of Flushing, gave judge- 
ment against Hobbs who ajipealed to the Director. 

1661, 3Iaij. — Randolph Huwitt's wife 'having 
been banished from Xew Amsterdam on acc-onnt of 
her disorderly conduct, resided with her husband 
at Flushing fonr years, when they returned and 
petitioned to be allowed to carry on their former 
business of Tavern keeping. Petition rejected. 

1061, JhIi) -1. — Thos. Terry and Saif.'l. Dearing 
petition for leave for themselves to settle 7 families 
and Hempstead 10, at ilatiiiecock. Grnnted, but 



they are to bring in no Quakers or such like opin- 
iouists. — Becords, B.p. 16. 

16G2, April. — fry.sbert Opdyek, an old servant 
of the compauv, jietifions to be appointed Sheriff 
of Flushing, Middleborgli and Rnstdorp. 

1662, Ji(hj'Z2. — Gonnectieut orders ~SU: .Jno. 
Ei2:ebell to be <'hosen constable of Ovsterbav. — 
TnimhuU Bcc, 1 : 390. 

16G2, Oct. 5.— Jamaica, Flushing, Hempstead, 
Xewtown and Gi'avesend, are a,nnexed to Conncc- 
ticiat. 

-1663. — ^The little heek or point of land east of 
Matta Garrett's bay, commonly called 3Iad Xan's 
Xeek, is granted by Iiemps-ts"ad to Thos. Hicks, 
John and-Thos. EUison, in lieu of their dividend. — 
Itccords. 

1063, Jr«)T7('lO.— Thos. llushmore, constable, 
of Hempstead, opposes the government of Con- 
necticut. He should be removed.* — Truml/idl, 
1 : 424. 

1663, Nov. 7.— Anthony Waters and John Coe, 
miller of Xewtown, raised a force of near 300 men 
and marched through the English to\ms on the 
west of L. I., convoked the people, told them they 
should no longer pay customs or taxes, removed 
the magistrates, and liually tlu-eatened the Dutch 
towns, if they did not also pronounce in favor of 
the English King. 

1664, Jan. 4. — Hempstead. Xewtown, Jamaica, 
Oysterbay and Flushing, combine to govern their 
own afl'airs irrespective of Connecticut. 

1664, March 3. — Gov. Stujvesant \'isit3 Heinp- 

stead, escorted by 10 soldiers.—' 'Co?.".??/.?., 2 : 468. | 

I 
1664, 2I(uj 12.— The following residents of Ja- | 

maica, were made freemen of Connecticut : Thos. 

Benedict, .J(is. Smith, ]\Ir. Walker, Dan'l. Denton, ; 

Hemy Widicv, .Tolui 13aylis, Wm. Smith, Fulk , 

IhwiL—Trumlndl Itcc, 1 : 429. I 

1064, 2Iai/-12. — Inhabitants of Hempstead made 
freemen of Conn. : Richard Gildersleeve, Sr. and ] 
.Jr., Thos. Hicks, Jer. Wood, John Carpenter, 
John Smith, Jr., Mr. Fordham, Henry Pearsall, 
Edward Titus, Wm. Scadding, Jas. Pine, Wm. 
Yeates, Thos. Carle, Eobt. Marvin, John Smith, 
'S-Mu—TruiiibiiU Itcc, 1 : 429. 

1664, 3Iai/ 12. — Inhabitants of Xewtown made 
freemen of Conn., if they accept it : Mr. Leveridge, 
Rich. Betts, "Sam'l Coe, Caleb Leveridge, Ralph 
Hunt, Jno. Burrows, Jno. Eamsden, Xich. Carter, 
Gershoir. Moore, Jas. Christie. 

Of Flushing: Wm. Xoblc, Ellas Doughty, 
Walter Salter, Eich. Weller, Jno. Thorne, Xich. 

Persell, Thos. , Jona , Wm. Salsbee, 

Jno. Heeded.— T/-(H«;;. Itcc, 1 : 430. 

1064, Jlay 12. — The Court of Conn, appointed 



*By ortler of the court at Hartfoul, )ie was. put in jail 
Sept. G, 1619, for ilisordcr in the meeting-house ou tlie Sab- 
batli. He then lived in Connecticut. 



QU.EEN,S COUNTY 



Coinmis.sioncrs : fur .Taimiica, llobt. Coo, Tllo.'*. 
Benedict ; Ilcmiistond, Jiio. Ifick'», lUtli. GUder- 
f lopvc ; Fln.-iliiii;!, Wm. H:illct, TVrn. Nowtc; Oys- 
ter Hay, Jiio. Itirklxdl, I{i)l>t. l''criuaii ; Nrwtowii, 
Ca])t. Jiio. Coc, Hicli. IJftti* ; Gravrsond, .las. Hub- 
bard, AVui. AVilkiii.-". — TntiiihuU, Jicc. 1 ( riao. 

1005, Oct. 1. Di'iiiiis lloldrcii* and wife Xova, 
ffparate in consequence of an ill correspondence 
between tliem and divide tlieir estate ciiually, un- 
der the ej-e of the magistrate oi' ilusliin^. — Vol. 1, 
Order and ^'urrants. 

166;). — Xora Iloldren and Jolni Lockersnn, lier 
son, (of Flusliinp:) petition lo liave possession of an 
e.statu of .C.>0 sterlinj^ now in tlie bands ot ^\i\tony 
Waters, of Jamaica, and .loliu C^>vkrnni of Xew- 
town, as overseer of said John Ijockerson.t who 
will Jje of age iu July ncxt.-rOrdcrs, Vol. 11, 226, 

16GG, Jan. 1. — A Sofisfous house and pri.son is 
to be built in Jamajcij, and f 100 to be levied on 
the towns iu the North £iding of Yorkshire. 

IGfiC. — Mr. Francis Doughty was nJui.-tcr at 
Flusliing, at 100 guilders a year. His contract 
for .salary was iiunit.one year liefore trial l)y Wni. 
Lawrence's wife, who put it uiulera pye in an oven. 
Doughty's son sued John Hicks, Capt. John Un- 
derbill, and Capt. 'Win. l.^wrence, for back salary. 
Underbill had ordered the clnn'cb door sliut up be- 
cause Doughty preached again.-^t the (ioveriinient. 
Thereafter Doughty was discharged. His son re- 
covered (iOO guil<h'rs ; each party to pay their own 
cost». U'he defence was, that Gov. ^ tuy vesant, by 
calling each person into his room se])arately, had 
forced the town to sign a call to said Do\ighty. 

IGGG, March 1 1. — Capt. Underbill begs to be 
excused from military service on account of his 
age. He and 7 other faniilic* have farms at Ma- 
tinecock, and are on good tenii.s with the Indians 
there. 

IGGG. March :iG. — The people of Jamaica agiX'C 
to keep the Sessions House in repair for 21 years, 
on condition of being alloweil to Wf>r-liip in it. It 
cost .flOO. Flushing withheld her part of the 
contriliutiiiu and wa.s cited, for neglect thereof, be- 
fore the Court of .Sessions, at .Jamaica. 

16G6, June. — As Tackajmusha is dissatisfied 
with the sale of hia hinds, the Governor renuests 
the town of Hempstead I'o give the Indians a gra- 
tuity for peace's sake. 

IGGG, Jtd>i .3. — Ciroat drought. Ileiiee no wlieat 
or wheat-nu'al to be exported fromN. Y. 

1(!GG, Ike. IS. — AVm. Lawrence, of Flushing, 
for seditioiH words, i.s fined Xll, and to make an 
apology to the court. 



•Dcunis IloIJrpn and ,S«r«h AVilkins, widow, of Flush- 
injf, Imd license ofumrrinpe, July 2S, 166!). 

tAncostor of the Kissams. lie ninrricd SusHunn Tliome, 
of Jamaica, July ID, lUti7. 



\W>1, March G. — .lolin Tredwell raamcd Kliza- 
bcth Store of Uenipstead. 

1667, AprU G.-r-.Io8. Carpenter pn^wses to 
build ii saw and fulling iiiill at JInsketo Cove. 
He petitions for land on each side of the river or 
cove. Hem])8tead, he says, clearly can't own it. 
[He .and Xatb'l Coles were the first two settlers of 
tliat pLoutatiou.J 

1GG7, JtiJii 2;j. — AVeekopp, KIcjnbear. , and . 
Watawitt, Mahicander and Ifiver Indi.ms, have 
leave to go to h. I. to dr\- clams and oysters. 

ICiQl, Aug. ^2. — AVm. Bisliop, .John Elce, Aaron 
Formaii, Kd. (iriflin, Jo.seph Iledger, Rich. Long, 
AVm. Noble, Nich. Pearsall, 'I'hos. Sadler, George 
Tippus, .Jos. Thorn, .John Thorn, Gx>orgc AVright, 
and cjoua. AVriglit, of Fhisliing, present themselves- 
to the Governor and give in their names to be ready 
to serve His 3Iajesty under his honorable com- 
mand, and on all occasions. — Vol. I, Orders, p. 180. 

1CG8. Fch. 24. — Tne inhabitants of IMathjecock 
and Killingworth, tbrongli Capt. Underbill, i]eti- 
tion the Governor to be made an inde|)endent town 
from Hempstead. — Vol. 1, Orders, Warrants. 

1668, JVov. — Great sickness in N. Y., and over 
the land iu general. Some are daily g^vppt away 
and many more are lying on their languipm'lig 
beds, expecting,' t:;u;L liyur their dissolution. Ada}' 
of hmuiliation is ordered b}- the (iovenior, who 
com|dains of swearing, an intenn>erate way of 
drinking and all manner of impieties as prevailing. 
—Orders, Vol. 2, 294. 

1669, March .^L— To his Exeellency, the Karl 
of Bellomont, Capt. Gen. and ({ov. of the I'ro- 
vince of N. Y., &c. The luui,ble petition of Sam'l 
Clowes showeth, that your Fxcellency's petitioner 
being very desirous to be some way servinwble to 
His ^Majesty and ,your Kxcv Uency iu this I'rovincQj 
doth 'i(,veby bmubly otfer himself •■nul request your 
Excellency would graciously please to invest him 
with the ezijiloy of < 'on\plr,il)ef or Surveyor of the 
customs, or any other post your Excellency shall 
think him qualified for; and yonr Excelli'ncy's 
petitioner shall (as iu duty aud gi'atitude bound) 
ever pray, &c. 

16G0. — Gov. Lovelace appoints a liorse race to 
take place iu ^lay. Subscriptions to be taken for 
a crown in silvi'r or the value iu good wheat ; the 
list of subscribers to be sent to Ca])t. Salisbury. 
[Gov. Nicolls had appointed a rac(^ the year before ; 
not so nuich, he says, for tlie divertisement of 
youth as for the encouragement of the bettering of 
the breed of horses, ■>\lii).'h throiijji gi'cat negh'ct is 
impaired.] — Vol. 1, Orders. 

IGiiO, ^fay IG. — .John Tredwell had liLs shoul- 
der dislocated. The (iovenior therefin'e excuses 
bia^from the present general .'vnd town trainings. 

1600, May. — '['hom.-ig ihtshmore is ordered to 
give up to Capt. Seaman, the military colors which 
he got of the Governor. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



1(309. — David "Whitehead vfnti shot in the thigh 
{■before June) and lost the use of one hand from 
the wilful shot of "\Ym. Afljertus ;■ aTiJ still eudiu-es 
great misery, and can do no scr\'ice for himself, but 
is partly supported By a fine he got of Albertus. 
Thomas Stevens distrained Whitehead, got his 
clothes, (fee, but, on his petitioning the Governor, 
he was declared free from all arrest. — Vol.2, Or- 
ders. 

1669', Sept. S.— Thos. Haddersly, gviilty of a 
lireach of promise in N. Y.. after the bans had 
been three times published, went to Flushing and 
pretended marriage to a daughter of one liedger. 
A warrant was issued agamst him. — Vol. 2, Orders, 
p. 525. 

1669, Oct. 6.— Jamaica offers Mr. Hubbard, of 
Gravesend, a lot to encourage him in setting up a 
mill in the towu. — Ilec. p. 50. 

1669, Nov. 5. — "\Vm. Hallet not performing his 
contract to build" a complete Sessions House, at 
Jamaica, the court decided that it must be done By 
next Christmas day, or he be fined <i£10. 

1670, Jan. 20. — The towu of Jamaica agrees to 
bvrild a good dam fur a mill, to be erected byBenj. 
Ooe. He to grind the town's corn for the 12th (in 
preference to strangers) and they are to bring it 
such days as he may appoint. — lice, p. 51. 

1670, April 4. — Jamaica votes that Nic_holas, 
the coojier, shall have half an acre of laud by the 
Beaver Pond, to build a house on, to supply the 
town with i-v£\\ cooper's work as they shall stand 
iu need of. — Ilecord.. 

1670,. Majf, 1. — If the schoolmaster comes, Gil- 
dersleeve is to give Up to him. — Hemp. Ecc. 

1670. The- people of Jamaica petition the 
Governor against a certain witch, Katharine Hari- 
son's settling there. Petition granted. [She had 
lived 19 years in Wethersfield, and been 12 
mouths in prison at Hartford, and was released on 
her promise to remove elsewhere — Tnimhidl liCC. 
2 : 132., 

1670, Aiirf. 22. The Governor grants a pass to 
Tackapousha, with 40 other Indians, to visit his 
friends, the Northern Indians, to make some ac- 
customed presents to them. 

lC70i,Z>ec. 29. The libeLs of Hempstead, Flush- 
ing imd Jamaica, wore ordered to be publickly 
,)jurnt before the Town House, in N. Y. [It ap- 
pears. They would not bring palisadoes for the 
Fort at N. Y., as their patent did not ror^uirc it.] — - 
2'own Bccords, 1 : 55. 

1071, April 25. — The jwopleof Hempstead are 
not to plow or break up land for the Indians nor 
assist them therein. All Indians at Eocltaway, 
except actual residents, are to be forewarned to de- 
part. Ten tamilies there, are to have 10 acres of 
land for corn. — L'ecords. 

1671. — [Jonah] Sutton at MadNan's Neck is 



appointed trumpeter to the volunteers under Thos- 
Willcts, who are ordered out May 22. The offi- 
cers are to give him a suit of imiform clothes. 

1671. — Hempstead is ordered to pay Richard 
Charlton, schoolmaster. They have refused, or 
too long delayed the fulfillment of their contract. 
— Gen. Entries, A:in . 

1671, Jidy 23.^Tobias Feeks of Flushing 7 
years ago, deserted, his wife, Mary and her child- 
reu, and went to Holland, leaving also a son by a 
former wife. She paid some of his debts and peti- 
tions the G~overnor for leave to remain on her 
small fiirm and be exempt from paying any more 
debts. — Vol. 4, orders. 

1671, Sept. 21. — Ben. Coe agrees with the Town 
of Jamaica to set uj) a mill on the river between 
Old Town Neck and Long Neck, to grind the 
town's corn well (and before strangers') and to 
take the 12th part for toll. If he sells the mill, 
the town is to have the refusal.^ — Bccords, p. 61. 

1671, Oct. 4. — John Hubbs sues Wm. Hubbs 
for hog-stealing. John Woolley and Edward 
Banbury are witnesses. The sentence of the Com-t 
is Mi fine or 10 stripes. 

1672. — Andries, a negro slave of Capt. Wm. 
Lawrence was whipped 39 stripes and branded on 
the forehead with a hot iron, for theft and larceny 
of some linen, etc. at Jamaica. 

1672. — Rich. Lattin of Oystcrbay being inform- 
ed against by Loren Mott, was fined o£50 for sedi- 
tious words and to be imprisoned during the Gov- 
ernor's pleasure. He was excused fi-om corporal 
punishmeut by reason of his age. [He at first fled 
but returned home on theissue of a proclamation 
for the confiscation of his estate if he did ^lot ap- 
pear.] 

1672, June 24';— In a contested election for Con- 
stable at Hempstead-, Robt. .Jackson had 39 votes 
and Simon Searing 31. John Hicks and James 
Pine object to Jackson because the major part of 
his votes was from MadNan's Neck, who have 
small parcels of laud and have no relation to the 
town equal to the ancient inhabitants — some piar- 
cels being divided into several sh.ares. The Court 
decide that the people of MadNan's Neck may 
vote, if freeholders, and that they cannot, be set 
ofl' as a village by themselves and be abstracted 
from Hempstead. Capt. Seaman and J. Smith, B. 
appear for Jackson and Thos. Hicks and James 
Pine for Searing. The election, is confirmed in 
Council. 

1673, Jan. 7. — Thos. Appleby married Elizabeth 
Osborn, both of MadNan's Neck. 

1673.— The house of Ellen Wall, for 23 years a 
resident of Flushing, was by an unexpected mis- 
chance burnt down, whereby she became needy 
and was forced in her old age (against nature al- 
most) to begin the world again. The town's peo- 
ple owe her some small debts but she is put off by 



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the magistrate!?, and putitions the Governor for re- 
lief. — See also hiker's Neictoivn, p. 47. 

1674, Jan. 1-5. — John Jcnniii°;s, a sojoiinier at 
Hempstead, on comphiint mado Ipy tlii' wifV of one 
Skuddcr of Maapeth Kills, that he carried off his 
brother's indentures, is sentenced to be put in 
prison in the Hole and on liis release to be put in 
the stocks at Hempstead — there to sit two hnm-s 
with a paper on his breast signifying his crime, 
and to pay all charges. 

1674, Feb. 9.— The Court of Flushing send a 
dangerous fellow, under charge of two men, to the 
Governor, at New Orange, with a request that he 
be imjirisoned tliere, as they liave no jail or lock- 
up at Flushing.— Co?. 3Iss., 23 : 30 1. 

1674, April 18. — Samuel Furaian of Oysterbay, 
went about the streets of New York making a 
great noise and uproar, and presumed to come in- 
to the church and abuse the word of God and blas- 
pheme His Holy name, for which he is sentenced 
to be .severely whipped with rods, banished the 
Province and pay costs. — Col. Jlis. 2 : 705. 

1G74, Xov. 30. — Thos. Cham])ion, Rich. Gilder- 
sleeve, Wm. Jecocks, .James Pine, Simnii Searing 
and Jer. "Wood of Ileni])stead, in behalf of some 
others, request Gov. Andros (as being fathor of 
this Commonwealth) to install such autlionty among 
them as may be a means under tiod fur iijiliolding 
and maintaining the ministry and worship of God 
" among us," that his honor may be promoted and 
his sabbaths obser\ed, for the good of themselves 
and their posteritj'. 

1C74.— Thos. Case of Newtown, is ordered liy 
the Court tliere not to entertain the wife- of Wm. 
Smith without his consent.*— j;. 501, Hinmaii's 
Conn. 

1G74, Not'. 16. — .John BuiTou.slis of Newtown, 
is sentenced to be imprisoned till Monday, and 
then to be fastened to the whijiping post before 
the City Hall at New York, and tliere stand one 
hour with a i)lacard on his breast, denoting that he 
h;ul addressed seditiuus letters to the (iovemor 
and Council, (which he pretended to be in the name 
of the town) anil to be incapable hereafter of bear- 
ing any office or trust, 

1674, Nov. 21. — Daniel Patrick* and Francis 
Coley of Flushing, for contenii)tuously working on 
Thaidcsgiving Day, and giving reproachful lan- 
■lia'^-e to the magistrates tliat questioned them for 
it, are sent to the New York Sessions by Justice 
Cornell and Mr. llinchman. 

1675, Jan. 1.— Chancy,' an Indian, bomul for two 
years to Moses kludge of Jlusketo Cove, and since 
become his servant for debt, has run away and 
is supposed to be with the Sequetanck Indians. 

•Tlioa. Case of Fairfield roniovcil to the Dutch in 1664, 
was afli-rwanls inii)risoiieJ, rcjiTtiil tlio inward light and 
died l(i'.l2, cliildW'ss.— *V/r«t'f, Cai. Diet. 

tOnc! Capt. D.iuiel I'atrick was kilUd iu !=tninf.ird.— 
thadln 1, 127. 



1675, Jan. 24. — The Indians on I.<ong Island 
are to be disarmed at this juncture and their arms 
laid up in the nearest block house, and all Indian 
canoes on the north side of the Island above Hell 
(!ate, are to be collected on account of the Indian 
disturbances at the eastward. No intercourse is to 
he allowed with the Indians ou the Main, and 
those at Pell's must go to winter within Hell Gate 
on Long Island. 

1675, Feb. 24. — .Jamaica votes that a committee 
be fully empowered to treat with and (if tluy see 
cause) consummate an agreement with 3Ir. .Joseph 
Carpenter, of JIusketo Co\-e, and Caleb Carman, 
of Jamaica, for building a corn and saw mill where 
the old mill stands. — Kvconh, p. 75. 

1675, Feb. 29. — Tackaponsha from Rockaway, 
sends to Gov. Andros at Niw York, two Indians 
bearing an Indian scalp >\ith the hair on. 

1675, June 10. — Francis Bloodgood .and Myn- 
dert Coerteu of Flnshuig, are bound over on a 
complaint of Dr. Taylor against Cocrten for sedi- 
tious words ; but no one appearing ag.iinst them, 
they are dismissed. 

1675, Jiili/ 22. — John, son of John .and Su.*au- 
na Skidmiire, while playing at the house of .Sam- 
uel and Naomi Barker at Jamaica, one Smiday (a 
difference arising, as was alledged between them) 
took up and cocked a loaded gun (in the absence 
of the parents) fired and sliot his son Thomas Bar- 
ker through the body with a brace of bullets, so 
that he died next day. As the neiglil)ors manifes- 
ted so much malice, Skidmore petitioned the Gov- 
ernor for a trial by disinterested parties, as his son 
did not know of the gun's being loaded. He was 
tried Oct. 7. The witnesses were .John ( )ldfield 
and Richard Burgess, lads, who wen- not p\it to 
their oath by reason of their age. It appeared that 
tlie deceased f'orj;ave the lad. Verdict of the jury ; 
chance medley, whereupon the prisoner Avas cli'areil 
by proclamation of the Court. 

1675, Sep. 15. — Capt. Thom.is Townsend of 
Oj'sterbay, complains to the Governor that the 
Quakei-s wcm't keep watch. It is ordered that all 
must obey the laws. 

1675, Ocl. 21. — A block house nnist be erected 
forthwith on JladNan's neck. Tiie jxMiple have 
neglected former orders and did not help Hemp- 
steiid cither, .and arc to be punished for conteinpt 
if further delayed. 

1675, Oct. 27. — The Indians have in friendship ' 
brought in their .arms to Hicks. " You may lend 
them, says the (iovernor, as many back as you 
judge projK'r for their present hunting, i^ee, liow- 
ev('r, that the peopli- of Ili'injistead omit not .<eud- 
ing daily to see them according to order." 

1675. — Thomas Case while preaching at Matin- 
ecock is arrested by the Constable of Oysterbay. 
He had also preached at Humphrey Clay's.* 

•Clay lived iu Hushwick iu IG98.— Doc. Hit. 3, 135. 



IN OLDEN TIMES, 



lG7o, Ocf. — Jlaiy Case is fined .€5 for iiiternipt- 
iuo- 3Ir. Lcvericli while preacliing, aucl saying; to 
him : " Come down, tlioii whited wall, tliou that 
feedest thyself aud starvest the people." The Con- 
stable led her out of the meeting. Samuel Scud- 
der is fined cCG or go to jail for sending a long and 
" scandalous letter to Mr. Leverich. Francis Coely 
submits and is dismissed. Elizabeth Appleby dis- 
turbed the Court of Sessions aud is committed. 
Thomas Case is fined cC20 for preaching and ma- 
king a disturbance before John Bowu's door at 
Flushing. 

1675, Nov. 23.— Conibury or Little MadXan's 
Neck hitherto supposed to be in Fhishing (the line 
having been i-un) is annexed to Hempstead. Hicks 
who lives there has au interest also and office ia 
Hempstead. 

1676. — Thomas Case of Newtown, deluded 
women by his teaching. He pursued extravagant 
and illegal courses to the scandal and disturb:ince 
of the Colonj^. He has deluded and drawn away 
Ann, wife of John Rogers, and Susanna, daughter 
of John To^\^lSc^d, notwithstanding the demands 
aud endeavors of the husband and father, he de- 
tains them from their duty: aud utters from place 
to place many unfit gestures and words against tlic 
laws of God aud the authority of this Government. 

1676, Jan. 12. — Too many persons \-isit Thos. 
Case in prison. None hereafter to be admitted. 

' 1676, Jan. — The Constable aud Overseers of Ja- 
maica grant liberty to Richard Jones to make use 
of the Meeting House to teach school in for the 
year ensuing, except when wanted for town busi- 
ness, provided he keep the windows from break- 
hig and keep it decent and clean on Saturday 
nights against the Lord's Day, aud have the seats 
placed in order. — Town Records, p. SO. 

1676, May 12. — John Rogers had complained 
to the Governor, of Ann, his -wife, being drawn 
away by Thomas Case, in whose house and com- 
pany at Maspeth Kills, he found her after 1 4 days 
absence, but could not get her to come home with 
him. Ann was lu-ought before the Governor at 
Oysterba}-, and after sundry extravagant expres- 
sions, she promised to return home and comport 
herself according to the duty of a wife, without 
rambling aliroad, particularly after Case ; but next 
morning she presumed to come into the house "f 
Geo. Deunis where the Governor ivas lodging, in 
a dancing, quaking manner, with silly insignificant 
discourse to the disturbance and scandal of the 
house, and in derision of authoritj^ for which she 
was sent to New York, to be kept in close custody. 

1676, May 17. — Three pieces of land one mile 
square eack are bought of the Matinccock Indians 
about iluskcto Cove, of which the people already 
have the herbage and trees, The Indians at first 
asked au extravagant rate, but at last consented to 
take 600 guilders,^seawant. 

1676, July 24.— Richard Jones of Jamaica is 



sent prisoner to New York, on infonnation of Alex. 
Smith, for using treasonable words against His 
Majesty. 

1676, Sep. 29. — Gildersleeve and Searing in the 
name of the town of Hempstead, forbid any squat- 
ter.? ou Cow Neck. 

1676, Oct. 3. — The Governor grants, ou petition, 
100 acres of land, improveable and not yet appro- 
priated, on the west side of Cow Neck, with mea- 
dow proportionable, to Johu Cornell, who, with his 
wife and five children, had been driven from his 
habitation at the eastward by the Indians. Cor- 
nell having obtained the above gi'ant, proceeded 
to build thereon. Hempstead then voted (Oct. 14) 
that all holders of rights ou Cow Neck should go 
aud pull down the building that Cornell had set 
up. Whereupon the clauuauts tore down his 
building. He then got out a warrant to bring the 
rioters with all force, civil and military, before the 
Governor. The following jn'oceedings then took 
place, at a Special Court of A,ssize : the indictment 
was read and the jury called over. The prisoners 
at the bar, Thos. Rnshmore, Nath'l. Pearsall, Adam 
Mott, Abm. Smith, and Jos. Langdou, excepted to 
Elias Doughty, Dr. Taylor and Thomas Stevens, 
in whose places wera put John Cooper, Johu Couk- 
lin aud Nicholas ijdes. A question then arose 
whether the prisoners should hold up their hands for 
a riot or not. The Coiu't decided in the negati^-e. 
A paper signed, Sept. 19, by Rnshmore, " with 
many hands of combination," was produced aud 
read. These 37 signers bound themselves to as- 
sert their rights in Hempstead, and especially on 
Cow Neck. 

It is moved by Mr. Leete* the King's Counsel, 
to amend the indictment, and insert felony instead 
of riot, C. Sandford, counsel for the prisoners, in- 
sisted that there must be twelve to make au uula^\'- 
ful assembly a riot, according to law. All arc with- 
drawn but the Coui-t. Tlie Court decided to pro- 
ceed according to the indictment, and that the rest 
be called over who set their hands to the jiaperaud 
resolution ; and then decide how they shall be pro- 
ceeded against. 

Four of the prisoners are withdrawn and Na- 
thaniel Pearsall left remaining and indicted apart. 
He pleads not guilty. A paper was read, signed 
by Searing, Pearsall and Richard GUdersleeve, 
which is the beginning of the " combination." He 
acknowledges it and submits to the Court. Richard 
Cornell, one of the bench, being asked his knowl- 
edge, taxes Pearsall to be the first man that begun. 
There were to be 2.5 men but he counted only 22. 

The prisoner ofiers to prove (1) his title, and 
questions whether a riot can be committed on one's 
own land — overruled. 2. He moves to extenuate 
the fact as to the'value of the danuige done, and as 
to the agreement under their hands, called a " com- 
bination ;" and hi.' thinks (3) that their endeavors 
to defend their title legally not to be a riot ; as he 
had no arms, gave no threatening words nor heard 

*\Vas this Win, Leete, Dep. G«v. of New Haveu? 



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QUEENS CO'UNTY 



the fi)ri\vaniiiiij; of C'onifU in His Maji-.^fy's namt. 
Saiidt'ord riMil from Daltou'rf JiiBtic", that to re- 
move a common uuisancc any nunihcr of persons 
may meet and remove it to another ])hiee. The 
jury without parting from Court deliver in their 
verdict that Pearsiill is guilt}' hy jiroof and confes- 
f-ion. The prisoner is withdrawn and 'i'liomas 
Ihi.-^hmore l)roiif,'ht to tlie hur. He said he nieddhd 
with nothin;; but what was his own, and that Cor- 
nell called them " wolves and Indians." Christo- 
pher Yeomans being sworu s:iy3, he was stripping 
off gome tobacco in his house, at Great Neck, and 
heard a great noise of people, and alVcrward saw 
some horsemen and Lieut. Mott come up, who 
asked him if he would go with him, and borrowed 
his ciinoc. So they got in and rowed over to Cow 
Neck, where he saw Kichard Cornell and near 
twenty llempste.td men, among whom wa.** the 
prisoner at the bar, Thomas Itushniore, v.-lio (Mr. 
Cornell saith) was the first who hiid hold of and 
.struck at the building which they quietly i>ulled 
dovni. Mr. Cornell first spoke to Yeoman.s but he 
replied: "I am none of them." Then Cornell 
said: "bear witness what ye see done." Kogcr 
Pedly testified as above, and also that Rushmore 
said : " Come let us do what we came about." 
Whereupon he laid hands upon a ])ole and the rest- 
followed him and pulled down what had been set 
up and then cut it to pieces. 

The Court charged the jury, who went out on 
the whole case and tiud all guilty. The senteucc 
is as ibllows :■ 

Nathaniel Peai-sall, Clerk of Hempstead, who 
first signed the paper is fined ^£20 and to give 
bond for his good biha^ ior. Thomas llushmoic; 
who stands in his justification, is liiied .£40 and six 
mouths' imprisonuieiif, then to come ont on giving 
security for his good beha^•ior to the next Court of 
Assizes. Adam Mott (wlio pleads he was not in 
the " combination " nor knew of the CJovcrnor's 
special wan-ant, nor did anything to withstand au- 
thority, but went to defend his own concerns upon 
the land) on his submission and good Ixhavior is 
fined <£5. Abm. Smith acknowledges his hand — 
was emjiloyed by the town" to warn oft' J'ohn Cor- 
nell, and was the last tiiac with the rest to preserve 
their rights on the Neck, but with no ill intent and 
gave no ill words, and told Cornell if he had any 
goods or things in the small building, he would do 
well to take them out. IJe is fined .£10 and to 
give secm-ity for his good behavior. Joseph Lang- 
don confessed that he was one of the riotei's and' 
heljjed to pull down the house, and owns his hand 
to the paper. He- is fined £10 and to give securi- 
ty for his good behavior. — Vol. 2iJ, Assises. 

All the rest are to be summonetl to tlie next 
Court of Sessions, at Jamnicai when the Court arc 
to examine into the business and (as they see 
cause) to acquit the fine or bnid them to their good 
behavior and to appear at the Court of Assize; 
and the agreementis declared to be illegal, and who- 
ever acts thereby is to be declared criminal. It is 
the judgment of the Court that Mr. Cornell has 



Jibeity to settle at Cow Neck apiin, wh(Te he was : 
and if the land shall apjxar to belong to the Ileinp- 
ptead niM'.i they shall be jiaid for it as much as 
they can ))rove it to be -worth. — To?. 3 : 127, Coun- 
cil Minutes. 

IGTG.'i — Hempstead^ -was cited before the Gover- 
nor to show a particular sm-vey for all their Indian 
purchases. IJoth sides were- to jdead their owu 
cause. Captain Seauuin came v/ith Hushmore 
from Hempstead to speak to the Gu^■enlor, at the 
Court of Assize, to give their reasons for not tak- 
ing out their patents, and about the Neck and other 
matters. They came but never spake a word. 

1G7G ? — AVilliani Leverich is s-ued for saving 
that the Dutdi, at Albjiny, su])plied powder to the 
Indians. He is fined twenty beavers for not being 
able to make good his assertion, and to give bonds 
in tlie sum of £1 00 fur hi.s gT)od behavior for the 
ne.xt six month.^. 

1G77, Marcii l.J. — The Pequod Indians liavc 
been over to see Mouiiguamy, the Eockaway Sa- 
chem. The Governor orders llimpstead to settle 
with the Indians for the land they have bought. 

1G77, Jiili/ 22. — Gildersleevc, aged 73, and his 
wife, testify that Tackapousha has been paid for 
his Itmdi*. 

l'G7S-. — John GRcson, (Kissam) buys of John 
Smith, Hock, two lots, of ninety-nine acres, at 3Iad 
Nan's Neck, for .£ilO, to be paid in good mciThant- 
able blade tobacco, in casks — to be delivered at 
the weigh-hoHse, Now York, at price current, equiv- 
alent to good merchantalile ])ork, wheat, beaver, 
seawant, in four payments, 1079, '80, 'SI and 'S2. 
— Coiintij Jtecords. 

IGGO? — The man-iage of John Underbill, Jr., 
and .Mary Prior, of Oysterbay, is pronounced null, 
and they are fined by the Sessions, in June, =£5 
ajiiece, for a breach and contempt of the law ; and 
to j)ay £10 more if they shall not be legally uiiir- 
ried before the holding of the next Court of A,ssizes, 
wliicli being neglected, they are fined .Cl-0 each and 
the judgment of. th« Coiu't below, atlirmed. 

1678, Jan. 21. — ^.V warrant is granted to Cap 
tain James Hubbard to siuwey and make a map of 
Great or Cow Neck. 

l«7e,- Dec. 11.— The Constable of Flushing 
c/jm])lains that John Prior and Elizabeth Ijown 
live tofrether uidawfully, under pretence of mar- 
riage in '^iiftker meeting. 

1G7!), 3hiii 19. — Thomas Hushmore has license 
to erect a grist and saw mill, on a stream on the 
west side of JIad Nan's Neck, on laiul not yet 
taken up or improved, and to tut timber uot ap- 
propriated, for his saw mill. 

1 070, Dec. 10. — Tackapousha, Avho claimed half 
of Cow Neck, lias liberty from the Court of Ses- 
sions to settle on the east side, but he is to admit 
no strange Indians. 



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1664. — Hcndrick Thompson, Cow-keeper of Ja- 
maica, is cliarged with using scandalous words 
against the King. 

1665, Aprii 21. — Thomas Case and Mary Mea- 
cock, have not been hxwfully engaged as man and 
wife, and are declared free from the obligation of 
Wedlock ; each to enjoy what property belongs to 
him or her ; the children of Mary to remain with 
the mother. — Gen. Entries, 1 : 111. 

1674, Bee. i. — Petition from the people of Ja- 
maica, praying for a representative form of govern- 
ment.— Co?, ilss., 24 : 25. 

1675, Kov. 1. — Mary Case was released from 
prison, in New York, at the request of her friends, 
and on her promise not to go abroad to imlawful 
meetings, nor to have any at home. — CoL Mss., 
25 : 1. 

1677, Jan. 7. — Hempstead voted, bj- a majority, 
to build a Meeting House, 30 feet long, 21 feet 
wide and 12 feet stud between the joints, with a 
lean-to on each side. The builder was Joseph Car- 
penter. — 2'own Eecords, B, p. 123, 128. 

1680. — .lean Guenon, Frs. Bretcau and Jean 
Apr6, three Frenchmen, of Flushing, petition for 
more land. They have lived there over twenty 
years. — Vol. I, p. 170, Land Papers. 

1680, May 12.— The old Meeting House and 
Fort, at Hempstead, were sold at outcry, for £2, 
12s., in meeting house jjay — th.at part of the Fort 
excepted that stands iu Jeremy Wood's lot. — 
Records, B, p. 64. 

1680, Oct. 6. — .John West, merchant, of New 
York, was appointed, by Governor Andros, Secre- 
tary of the Province and Clerk of the Court of 
Assizes. In August, 1683, he was superseded by 
John Spragg, as Provincial Secretary. In 1684 he 
married the daughter of Thomas Eudyaitl. On the 
return of Andros to power he accompanied him to 
Boston. West was seized on Andros' overthrow 
and immiu-ed in the castle at Boston. — Cot. His., 
3 : 657. 

1681, Feb. 14.— Christopher Dean and Tliomas 
Kobbins had a warrant to seize a ketch riding m 
Cornbury bay, and loaded with wheat, grain and 
flour, unbolted. They applied to Thomas Willcts, 
Thomas Hicks and Eiehard Cornell, to assist them, 
who refused till they had consulted Major Thomas 
Willets. Dean and Eobbins, iu a mad, hare- 
brained and preposterous manner, went on board 
Mr. Ilascock's sloop, took a gun and threateijed to 
fire into the said Ketch, with other daring expres- 
sions, which had like to make a mutiny and dis- 
turbance among the neighbors. On their complaint 
to New York, the three magistrates replied that 
they had sent for the Captain and found he had 
some wheat and had taken security of him to an- 
swer for what he had on board. — Vol. 30, Albany 
Beeords. Also, Col. His., 5 : 57 ; 6 : 461. 

1681, March 13. — John Hanse, John Tunesen 



and Jerome Ilapelye get land, at Rockaway, of 
the Indians. — Hempstead Records, p. 125. 

1681, Sept. 22. — Jamaica appoints Wm. Creed 
to go to Himtington to confer with the other dele- 
gates about grievances and the pri%-ilege8 of the 
county, etc. — Records. 

1682, Jan. 4. — Hempstead hires carpenters to 
build a Parsonage, i. e., a Town House, 35 feet 
long, 18 feet wide, nine or ten feet between the 
joints. — Becords C, p. 29, 123. 

1682. — AVamassomman, an Indian, killed two 
wolves, for which the Constable of Hempstead 
gave him two Indian coats, five shillings and a 
quart of rum. — Records. 

1682, May 6. — Rev. Jeremiah Hobart, called to 
Hempstead, by major vote. Salary =£70 and fire- 
wood. Some dissented. — Ree., p. 123. 

1682, June. — The people of Mad Nan's Neck 
engaged the Rev. Morgan Jones as their minister, 
but the Rev. Mr. Hobart, of Hempstead, forbid his 
K^^ng among them. On his leaving them the peo- 
ple petition the Governor for a resident minister to 
instruct themselves and their sixty children ; for 
otherwise tliey cannot but expect that atheism or 
irreligion will grow up among them, as Mr. Hobart 
has been there but three times for the past four 
years, and then on week-days, whereas he M'as or- 
dered, by the Govenror, to preach there once a 
month. — Doc. His., 3 : 346. 

1682, June. — Hempstead, sensible of the ill 
neighborhood of Taekapousha, -with his Indians, on 
Cow Neck, (which is iu the town bounds) com- 
menced an action (May 25, 1682) against him at 
the Jamaica Sessions and obtained judgment, but 
John West, Clerk of the Court, was also attorney 
for the Indians, and appealed to the next Court of 
Assizes, when no Indians appeared, but West 
plead for them. Hempstead finding no bill brought 
iu by the Indians eight days befoi-e trial, neglected 
to bring their former judgment confirmed. The 
Court insisted on going on with the trial and 
Hempstead depended on the minutes of the previ- 
ous Court in West's possession, but he did not or 
would not produce them, and so the town was cast. 
But it did redound well to the Clerk's advant- 
age hj the Indians' grant and gift to him of a 
great tract of land. Hempstead petitions the Gov- 
ernor for a review of the case as the Indians did 
not appear at the last trial and were not bound by 
it, neither should Hempstead be. Petition grant- 
ed. — Albany Becords, 31. 

1682, Oct. — Hendrick Hegeman and others pe- 
tition the Governor for leave to buy vacant land on 
Cow Neck, of the Naturals or Indians, as they 
have gained their suit in the Sessions. 

1682, Dec. 8. — The to^vn of Hempstead pleads 
agamst Hanse and his associates settling at Rocka- 
•^yay.— Land Papers, Vol. 2 : 3. Becords, p. 29. 

1683, Oct. 3.— Thomas Higham, tailor, sells a 



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negro slave who has lost all the fingers on the right 
haud, and thumb ou the Itft. -^Ilenipsieatl Itec, C. 
p. 24. 

1G84, Jan. 3. — The inhahitants of Mad Nun's 
Neck petition the (jovenior tor riglit of conunou- 
age, to have the privileges of the township, to have 
the minister come over among tliem to instruct 
their children in the dirties of Christianity, and to 
have the right of \oting at town meetings. — AUnniy 
Itccords, 31. 

1G84, March. — Flushing votes to Governor Don- 
gan 400 acres of land, extending soulii of Success 
pond to the edge of Hempstead Plains, lli inp- 
Btcad also grants him 200 acres, adjoining. 

i685, Feb. 18. — Morgan Jones, late minister of 
Newtown, pclitions the Governor, lie came, he 
say.s, from JIarvland to New York, !Marcli 9, 1070, 
and Governor Andros ordered him to go to New- 
town to- be tlieir minister. The Constuhle and 
Overseers agreed to give him £50 a year (mer- 
chant's pay) and fifty acres of land and huild a 
house for him. They are now cflOO in arrears 
and won't pay. — Albany Itccords, .32. 

1G8.5, March 17.— .Jamaica %'otes that benjamin 
Coe and .Jolni Hansen shall have liberty to set up 
a com and fulling mill, ou Foster's River, "in our 
bounds "—giving them the privilege of stream; 
they engaging to maintain a good mill, .-md grind 
for the town for the twelfth part. — Records. 

l:68o. — Roscobel, a tract of 280 acre?, on the 
80\ith side of Hempstead Plains, was laid out for 
J'ohn Spragg, the Governor's Secretary. It was 
bought of Elias Orty aud others. — lAtnd Papers, 
Vol. 2. Town Ilccord, p. o8. 

1<;86, Dec. 1;). — John Smith complains to the 
Governor that the Indians pitch their wigwams on 
land on the north side of H<ni])8tead, granted hiin 
twenty years ago. 

1G87, June 12. — Ordered in f'onneil, that ^lad 
Nan's Neck ])ay all arrears to Ilobart, and that 
they be separateil frfmi Hempstead hereafter, and 
that Morgan Jones be inducted as their minister. 

1G8S, March 27.— William Smith and .lolm 
Foster, of Foster's Sleadow, and Samuel Sweezy, 
took (by warrant from Daniel Wliit<liead) several 
marked horses from Southold, but afterward gave 
tiiem up and repented. 

1689, Mai/ 15. — All the old Magistrates and 
militarv oflicers are put out of office, in Suffolk and 
Queens counties, l)y the people, who choose others 
in tlieir stead. A' great part of tin- militia have 
marrhed from their homes, and are now at or near 
Jamaica. Tlieir intention is to seize the fort at 
New York, and to keep oft' Popery, French inva- 
sion and slavery. 

1G90, Jan. 10. — The officers of the milit.iry 
company, on Mad Nan's Neck, are Uichard Os- 
born. Captain ; .John llobbs, Licntenant, and Jo- 
nah Sutton, Ensign. 



1690, ^l;)ri7 22. — Nathaniel I'ears.-ill, chosen to 
the Assembly from Queens County, refuses to sit 
and act as Kepre.-entative. — JJoc. His., 2 : 2!>2. 

1690, Nov. 7.— Capt. Jbhn Clap, in behalf of 
104 citizens of Newtown, Flushing, Hempstead 
and Jamaica, complains to the King of Leislcr's 
usurpation, and that .Jacob Milburn and Samuel 
Edsall have been selling, seizin? aTid confiscating 
their property, for refusing obedience to iiim. They 
even strii»j)ed their wives and daughtei-s of their 
wearing- apjiarel, and shot and wounded divers 
poor Englishmen, and then sccjuestered and sold 
their estates. 

ICOD, Dec. 4. — Rev. .T. Ilobart has an order 
from the Court of ( )yer and Terminer, to compel 
Hempstead to pay the arrenrs of his salary. — Toirn 
Jtecords, p. GG. 

1G91, March 2'). — .John Jackson received 38 .«. 
and d. fur li.iy and oats that he fuiTiished to 
twenty-seven horses of the Hempstead troop, that 
were marched to Brooklyn ferry. 

1G91, Mati •!■. — .Tames Sackett, of Newtown, ap- 
pointed, against his own wish. Collector of Taxes, 
in Leisler's time, pray 8/ relief of the (iovemor, as 
the people now demand their money back. 

1G91. — .John Bowne and Nathaniel IVarsall, 
elected to the As.-<embly, fnmi Queens County, 
were dismissed the House, for refusing to taki' the 
oath. Five days after, John JaeksDU, Sin riff of 
Queens County, returned Captain D.iniel White- 
head and .Tohn Tredwell, as members, but Tred- 
well was seized on some charge, by the Slurifl of 
New York, and the Assemldy, on due investiga- 
tion, " find the allegations against him so scandal- 
ous that he can't serve as member." Seven days 
after the Sheriff relnnis the name of .John Robin- 
son, to supply TreiiweH's place. — Asscmhbi Jour- 
nal. 

1C91, Jnhl :',. — .Jer. Ilobart petitions the Gover-' 
nor. H.e has been minister of Hempstead eight 
years and his salary is not paid. — .Uhamj JUc, 
Vol. 37. 

1G91, July 11. — To the projirietors and free- 
holders of the town of IIemi)Stead : — The request 
of John Stuard humbly showeth, that inasmuch as 
it has pleased God to make me a master of a fami- 
ly, 1 finding it a necessity to settle myself, I am 
wiliing to settle among you, to follow the trade of 
a sooper, as also to ]iractice the art of surgery. 1 
do therefore request that you be pleased to givo 
me a right of 1-8 or 20 acres of land that is tillable, 
a little east of tlie I'ine Point, near the Plain Edge. 
It is the bit of that hollow, called the jiloody H(d- 
low, for which I shall be very tliaiikl'nl, and also 
ready and willing to serve you in either of the 
arts "aforesaid, so far iis I have understanding. — 
Jierords Cn p. 06. 

[81 persons joined in the aliove petition.] 

109 1 ]— Cow and Great Neck (45 families) pe- 



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tition the Governor to be set off from Hempstead, 
and choose their own Assessors. To muster, pay 
taxes, and carry their grain to that inland place is 
too great a hardship, especially as their houses arc 
eight, ten, and some fifteen miles asunder. They 
wish to send their grain (for taxes) to New York, 
direct, by water. — Albany Eccords, Vol. 37. 

1692, March 6. — Daniel Lawrence, laborer, is 
cited to New York, for misdemeanor in damning 
the blood of the Justices. 

1692, JiOK 17.— In the list of Captain Teter 
Schuyler's company, among other names, are : 
John Allison, Matthew Bedell, .Joseph Bates, .Juhu 
Gaile, Thomas Higgom, William. Hall, Pr. Mason, 
Vincent Martin, Eichard Potter, .James Pinhouse 
(for J. Pettit), William Parcell, William Kobard, 
Amos Smith, Samuel Skidmore, John Thomas (for 
Samuel Allyn) and Jeremy Thiekston. Queens 
County contributed 16 men; liings, 14; Suffolk, 
16. 

1692. — To Captain Bradhurst's company, Suf- 
folk contributed 1-5 men ; Kiug,s, 2 ; and Qiteeus, 
3, viz : Barnaby Floy, Clerk ; Thomas Force, Ser- 
geant, and William Albertson. 

1692, Sc}). 9. — John Coo petitions to be set free. 
He has been fifteen months in jail ou the suit of 
Thomas Hire for ^£230. He was arrested by Hire 
April 20, 1691, for having brought him to Now 
York on Leisler*^s wanant. 

1692, Sejpf. 9. — William Lawrence and John 
Coe were eleven months in jail for treasonable 
crimes, in Leisler's time, (April, 1691) and were 
indicted in October followmg. 

1694, lEarcli 1. — Yoris Abrahamse, of Newtown, 
was pitched on for Collector of the Count}' rate, 
but he petitions the Governor to be released fi-om 
the ofiice, as he is wholly incapacitated, under- 
standing no accounts, nor one who can write or 
speak English, neither understanding any law, way 
or method in distraining for said rates, not behig 
able to read or know the lists of persons named on 
it. He also has hired a person to act as his sub- 
stitute at Fort Albany ; and praj's he may not be 
compelled to serve iu both capacities^ 

1692-4. — Thomas Willet cut down two acres of 
corn of William Peat, at Cow Neek. 

1696, March 17.— The trees ol Thomas Willet, 
at Cow Neck, were cast down with axes, staves 
and knives, and evils threatened to him by Timo- 
thy Halstead, Jr., Wilham Peat, George Pearsall, 
Samuel Ilainer, Jer. and Israel Smith, Peter Tot- 
ten, Epliraim "\'alentine, laborers, and other evil 
doers. A wan-ant was issued, by Thomas Hicks 
and Daniel Whitehead, to arrest and caiTy them to 
the next jail. They were fined =£2 each, where- 
upon they petitioned the Governor for relief, saying 
that they went ignorantly to cut their wood, ou 
Cow Neck, by permission of the town of Hemp- 
stead. 



1698, Sepi. — Daniel and John Lawrence were 
fined .£3 each, for burning a hovel or small house, 
valued at £\2, 2s., which William Hallet, after 
digging a cellar, had set up on what they claimed 
as their land., 

1698.— Jackson and Whitehead were chosen 
to the Assembly, and their election was unsuc^ 
cessfidly contested by Content Titus, Jonas Wood, 
William Lawrence, Hope Carpenter, and John 
Coe.: — Assemhhj Journal. 

1699, March 31. — The petition of Samuel 
Clowes, to be appointed Comptroller of the Cus- 
toms, (ciToneously dated 1669, on page 6) was re- 
jected. 

1699, Mail 6. — Governor Bellomont writes that 
" Captain Whitehead, who is one of the members 
that serve for Queens Count}', kceps-a public house, 
at Jamaica, and is a disciple of Nichols. 'Tis at 
his house that Nichols always had a rendezvous 
with his pirates, in Colonel Fletcher's time. Nich- 
ols has so poisoned the peojile of Queens County 
(who are all English) that two thirds of them are 
said to be downright Jacobites, and to avoid taking 
the oaths to the King (which 1 lately enjoined all 
the males to do from sixteen years old and up- 
wards) a great many pretend themselves Quakers, 
but soon after, at the election of Assemblymen, 
those very men pulled off the mask of Quakerism, 
and were got very drunk, and swore and fought 
bloodily — their patron Nichols being a spectator 
all the while. In Suffolk they are all English too, 
but of a quite different temper and principle, the 
balance is, as I am told, ten Williamites for one 
Jacobite." — Col. His., 4 : 508. 

1699. — A third part of the goods imported into 
the Colony of New York were ridi mto the four 
ports on Long Island, viz. : Setauket, Oysterbay, 
Musketo Cove and Southold. John Townsend, of 
Oysterbay, was apjiointed by the Governor, Sur- 
veyor of the Custom^s, with a salary of <£30 per 
year and one third of the seizm-es, but beiug abused 
by the inhabitants, he soon resigned his office 
" through fear of being knocked on the head " by 
some of the smugglers. — Journal of AssemhJy. 

No date. — Mercy, an Indian woman, of Cow 
Neck, says that Penuis, an Indian, the Sagamore's 
son, belonging to Block Island, enquired if she 
knew how many houses there were on this end of 
Long Island ; and further asked Massecue, an In- 
dian servant of Samuel Sands, whether he would 
assist him to cut oft' the English. Upon which 
Massecue wished to know whether they would be 
kuid to them. But answer was made that no mer- 
cy should be shown, but if the Mohawks should say, 
" strike," he would do it. But, saith the Indian, 
if you will join with us, then you shall be safe, all 
one as one of us. And Mercy says that Penuis 
had been out \ipon discovery upon Great Mad 
Nan's Neck,* Cow Neck and Littleworth, and pla- 

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CC8 tliprfal)r)iitr<, who afterwards made liis boasts 
that he would destroy these jihices like notliiiifj ; 
and this I'eiiuis was designed to fjo into the Mo- 
hawk country and raise a party of Indians to land 
in the ni^ht and fop^gy days, by small numbers at a 
time, and so keep them private in the woods until 
he hud his number on Long Island to aecomplish 
his design ; and further the French are to mcret by 
water and so fall on and destroy all together, for 
Leisler's sake. Further, Penuis said, if this Iiuli- 
an woman would keep his counsel, that after he 
had conquered the Island and destroyed the Eng- 
lish, he would make her his (jueen, and he set a 
mark on her arm as a demonstration of bis fidelity. 

Jo.'icph Hunt, an Indian belonging to Itye, and 
landing on Cow Neck, the lUli inst., declared of 
six stray Indians seen in the woods on the JIain, 
who liaii their faces blacked and their eyes red — a 
token of war. On AVeduesday last there came a 
strange Indian into a wigwam on Cow Neck, who 
had a new coat, gun, hatchet and two knives, one 
in each garter of his stockings, who enquired if 
there were any more houses thereabouts. The In- 
dian girl being afraid said there were more. He 
then asked whether this was Tackajmu-slia's coun- 
try. Being afraid she answered he was dead, and 
his country was further southward ; and so the 
Indian went away, and nothing further was heard 
of him. 

Captain Sands' Indian was much aftVighted at 
the news, but after some private conference be- 
tween Joseph Hunt and Captain Sands' Indians, 
they were all reconciled and ijuiet in their minds 
and went all cheerfully about his business. And 
all the Indians repaired to that Indian house at 
night where the strange Indian was seen, and the 
Indiau seems ever since to be much encouraged. 

A further relation fnmi 31 r. Sands, which he had 
from an Indian boy, that this I'enuis would liave 
an Indian, called Charles, to go up to Albany, for 
they did intend (5 or 6,000 of them) to get into 
Albany, under pretence of going to take Canada. 
Under this pretence the Dutch and English will 
be kind and open hearted, and in the bight of their 
frolic we will cut off the town. — Col. Bins., Vol.3~. 

1701. — Jackson and Whitehead were expelled 
the House of Assembly, for absenting themselves 
and refusing to serve. They left the House, as 
they said, because non-residents were not allowed 
to sit, but refused to give their reason to the House. 
Colonel Thomas Willet and John Tahnan were 
elected in place of the expelled members. It seems 
they presented to the House an offensive paper, 
" written in barbarous language ; indited by others 
who took advantage of their simplicity." They 
then went home and would not obey the summons 
to attend the House, wheri\ipun they too were ex- 
pelled. The offensive pai>er that caused this ex- 
pulsion closed in these words : " till you giv us 
furder satisfaktiun nud the sjieaker (Gonverneur) 
clere hiuie'elf from being an uliane, we cannot acic 
with you, to sit an<l sj)end ower tyme and the 
countie's mouy to macke actes that will be voyd in 



themselves — and we consider you no house." Cap- 
tain Thomas Hicks and Jonathan Smith were 
elected in place of the expelled members. — Ass. 
Journal. 

1701, Mil;/ 3. — John Searing, John Carle, and 
Thom:is (lildeiTfleeve, are chosen at Town Electing 
to repair the Meeting House, on the town's charge. 
— Ilempstciid liceords D, j). 94. 

1702. — The Rev. George Keith, in his Journal, 

says : '■ I arrived at Boston from England, June 
11th, with Ilev. Patrick Oordon, who died about 
six M'eeks after, at Jamaica, of a violent fever then 
frequent at New York, where he first had it a.s is 
thought. The Quakers have their greatest meet- 
ings at Flushing and Oysterbay. These I have 
attended several times. Sept. 1.5th, we (Talbot 
and Keith) hired a sloop to carry ns from New 
London to Oysteqwnds, Long Island. After that, 
we came on horseback twenty-four miles, and 
lodged at Mr. Howell's, an inn-keeper. Ne.\t day 
we travelled forty-five miles to Seatalket, and 
lodged at Mr. Gibs's, inn-keeper. Next day trav- 
elled thirty -two_ miles to Oysterbay, whire we 
were kindly received and hospitably entertained by 
Edward White, at his bouse, on free cost, for sev- 
eral days, where we staid to rest .and refresh us. 
He was a Justice of the Peace, and had, with his 
wife, been formerly a Quaker, and was not quite 
come off from tlieni. Sept. ::iOth, (Sunday) at the 
request of Mr. AVliite aiul some neigldiors, having 
»ised the church prayers, 1 preached from Titus, 
2:11, 12, and that day Jlr. Talbot baptized a 
child, at the request of the mother, the husband 
being from home. Sept. 24th, 1 went to the 
Quakers' meeting, at Flushing, accompanied by 
Jlr. Talbot and 3Ir. Vesey, and divers other per- 
sons from Jamaica, well affected to the Church of 
England. After some time of silence I began to 
speak, standing up in the gallc*-, Avhere thehr 
speakers use to stand when they speak ; but 1 was 
so much intermpted by the clamor aiul noise that 
several of the Quakers made, forbidding me to 
S])eak, that I could not proceed. After this one 
of their speakers began to speak, and continued 
about an lumr. The whole was a ramble of non- 
sense and perversion of Scripture with gross reflec- 
tions on the chinch and government there. He 
said vice was set iqi (which was a reflection on the 
goveniment there) because some were lately made 
Justices of the Peace on Long Island, Avho were 
not greatly affected to (^•uakerism, etc., etc. After 
he had done he went out of the meeting in all haste, 
fearing he should be questioned about what he had 
said. I stood u]( again to speak but they made a 
new hilerniption, and threatened me with being 
guilty of a breach of the "Act of toleration," ana 
thereby had put myself .£20 in the Queen's debt. 
I rcidied that I was silent while their preacher wiis 
sjjeaking, but that they broke the Act by inter- 
rujjting me. They said I had no right to speak in 
their meeting house, which they had paid for, and 
1 had contributed nothing. One was .«o hot that 



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lie comniandod me to go out of the liouse. I said 
that it was not )iis, and that all who have a mind 
to come in at mccting^ime may come, and ye are 
bound to k<>ep your doors open, etc., etc. Sept. 
30th, I preached from James, 5 : 13, at the weekly 
Fast, appointed by the Governor, by reason of the 
great mortality then in New York, where above 
500 died in the space of a few weeks, and that 
very week, 70. My Lord Cornbury was very kind 
to- us. At his invitation we did eat at his table 
both Sundays and otlier times. Sept. 27 (Sunday), 
I preached at Hempstead in the afternoon, from 
Luke, 10 : 42, where was such a multitude that the 
church could not hold them so that many stood 
without, at the doors and window-s, to hear, who 
were generally well affected and greatly desned 
that a Church of England minister should be set- 
tled among them. Mr. John Thomas is now their 
minister. Nov. 26, (Thursday) I preached at 
Hempstead, on Acts, 26 : 18. Nov. 29, preached 
again there, on Heb., 8 : 10, 11, 12. Dec. 3, I 
again visited the Quaker meeting, at Flusliing, 
having obtained a letter from My Lord Cornbury 
to two Justices of the Peace to go along with me, 

' to sec that the Quakers should not interrupt me , 
but they did, and took no notice of jMy Lord Corn- 
bury's letter, which v/as read to them by Talbot, 

\in their meeting. I brought the printed Act of 
toleration with me, and Talbot read some passages 
to show that they had not qualified their meeting 
Louses nor their preachers as the Act requires. 
We staid and heard three speakers utter nonsense 
£tnd perversions of scripture. The chief speaker, a 
Hiost ignorant person, said : " Balak [Cornbury] 
Mad sent Balaam [Keith] to curse the jseople of 
tlod." ASter they had done, and generally gone 
fiway, (speakers and others) many who were not 
Quakers staid and heard me detect the perversions 
they had made of the scriptures, etc. Dec. G, I 
preached at Oysterbay, in the Town House, on 
Jlom., 10 : 7, 8, 9, and we were kindly entertained 
l^y Edward White. 1703, Nor. 14.— (Sunday) I 
preached at Jamaica, on Heb. 8:9, 10. Nov. 17, 

1 preached at Oysterbay, ( Wednesda}-) on Jude., 
20, 21 ; and Nov. 19, I baptized the wife of Cap- 
tain Jones and the wife of Edward White and all 
liis children, thi'ee sons and five daughters. (lie 
and his wife were fonnerly Quaker^ but are come 
Over to the churcli). Nov. 20, (Saturday) I bap- 
Jiized John Townseud, Justice of the I'eace and his 
three children and Mr. Nathaniel Cole, his wife and 
three children. There had scarce been any pro- 
fession of the Christian , rc4igion among -tlie people 
of that town. They had scarce any notion of re- 
ligion but Quakerism. The Quakers had formerly 
(I meeting there but many of them became follow- 
"fers of Thomas Chase [Case] and were called 

' " Chase's crew," who set up a new sort of Quaker- 
ism, and condemned marriage, etc. Nov. 21, (Sun- 
day) I preached at Hempstead cliurch, on 1 Peter, 

2 : 9, and lodged at Isaac Smith's, four miles from 
the church, where I baptized ^l young woman of 
his family, and a boy and girl of his relations and a 



neighbor's child, a boy. This Smith had formerly 
been a Quaker, a.nd was scarce then fidly come off, 
but came and heard me preach and was well af- 
fected, and did kindly entertain me. 

1702, Oct. 20. — On account of the sickness in 
New York, by which 500 died in ten weeks, the 
Assembly adjourned to Jamaica till November 
14th. [It was the yellow fever, brought from St. 
Thomas].— foZ. His., 4 : 972, 1004. 

1702, Oct. — Foiu- horse-carts and sixteen wag- 
ons were hired to go fromJamaica to Brooklyn 
Ferry for the transportation of Governor Coru- 
bury's effects, a horse for the trumpeter and a 
horse for Antony Walters. 

1T02, Nov.-Vy. — The town of Hempstead votes 
one hundred acres of land, with conveniences of 
watering near the East Meadow Point, for a free 
school ; also timber for building, fencing and fire- 
wood, with other conveniences. — Ass. Jounial, 1 : 
150.. 

1703, Jan. 12. — At a general town meeting are 
chosen for Church AVarden, John Pine ; for Ves- 
trymen, Jona. Smith, Samuel Denton, Daniel Kis- 

sarn, John Haviland, and . These for 

Hempstead. For Oysterbay — Thomas Jones, 
Churchwarden; Edmmid Wright, Isaac Dough- 
ty, Samrxel Dickinson, Eichard Willis and Na- 
thaniel Coles, Vestrjinen.* — Bccords D, p. 114. 

1703, Nov. 8. — William Lawrence met Jacob 
Wiltse, of Newtown, on the highway, near the late 
Thomas LaT\Teuce's, and assaulted him with a 
stake, which he suddenly took up, and smote him 
with that violence and blows that he broke his 
arm ; under tlie pain and bruises of which he now 
languishes. But Ljiwrence being of His Majesty's 
Council, Wiltse can get no satisfaction unless he 
presents him to the Council. — Col. Mss., Vol. 48. 

1704, April 1. — Jamaica grants liberty to John 
Gale to set up a grist mill, being a tide mill near 
to or upon the great hamoc, or upon the old town 
neck, for grinding well tlie town's com (before 
strangers') at all seasonable times, fit for either 
sifting or boltmg, and for the 12th part ; and at 
all times to use his best skiU and endeavor to grind 
as is above expressed ; and not to set up a fulling 
mill on said creek ; i. e. on the creek between the 
old town neck and long neck. 

1704, Mai/ 8. — A good fulling mill to be sold at 
Oysterbay, as also a plantation having on it, a large 
new brick house, barn, stable, etc., a young orchard 
and twenty acres clear land. Enquu-e of William 
Bradford, printer. New Y'^ork, and know further. — 
Boston News Letter. 

1704, Mmj 31.— -Tunis Johnson, Derick John- 
son Amberman and Derick Longstreet, fishermen, 
of Flatlauds, were brotight prisoners to Jamaica 
for trespassing in Jamaica Bay by fishing with 

*Oysterbay and Hempstead, by act of Assembly, were 
constituted one parish. 



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nets witliDUt consent fii" the fit-clioljors. Tliry 
were let oft' on their ;;iving a liond for ^£100 not to 
do so affiiin. lUit in May^ 1707, Ciovenior Corn- 
Ijury ordered tlieju to attend liim at IJockaway 
lieaeli, witli tlieir boats and nets, and l)id tliem, 
■when ihciv, to lisl^ and draw tlieir net.*. After 
Cornbury was out of office (May, 1709) the people 
of Jamaica pued the fishermen for the jienalty of 
their bond wliich they had forfeited. The prison- 
ers petition for a relea-se from their bond. — Col. 
Mss., 49 and 53. 

1704, June IG. — AiTivcd in Xew York, the 
Ew. Mr. Urquhart, Slinister of .lamaica. He 
eamc from En<;hind in the Faulkland, rnan-of-war, 
in consequence of the gea being infested with 
French and Spanish privateers. 

1704. — Samuel Clowes, at Jam.iica, is fined .C5 
fur selling rum by the .omall measure, contrary to 
law, to JIary Denton, who conveyed it to Samuel 
Mills' tavern.— Cw/. Mss., 49. 

1704, Ocf. 17.— :^ra)or Daniel ■\yiiitehcad dies, 
and Jona. AVliiteluad, his son, is elected to tiic 
Assembh- in his stead. • 

170.'), April 0. — Hard frost last night. It 
blows hard and cold from the north-west, which, 
we fear, will do great damage. 

170.), Ajtril 2.3. — On Wednesday last was tried 
in Jamaica, by a special commission of Oyer and 
Terminer and Delivery, before Ifoger Mompesson, 
Esq., Chief Justice of New Y«rk and NeV Jersey, 
on(; Samuel Wood, late of Conn(?cticut Colony, for 
Stealing money and goods from Jolin .Marsh, lie 
was i'ouml guilty and sentenced to lie burnt in the 
left cheek near the no.sc with the letter T. — Cor- 
rcspmulent of the Boston News Letter. 

170.'), 3[a>/ .30.— John Searing, Sr., John Carle 
and Thomas Gildersleeve, are chosen by major 
vote, in answer to an order from the (Jovernor, to 
repair the I'arsonage house and home lot, and 
fence the Parsonage meadow, so that th(\y may be 
tcnantalile, at the town's cost and charge, and to 
repair the church and what is needful about them 
all. — llcmpstcail Jiccords D, p. IGO. 

1705, Oct. 11. — Jamaica, on Friday, 5th inst., 
died here the lUv. 5Ir. John Hubbard, Pastor of 
the church in this jilace, aged 28 years and 9 
months wanting foin- days. lie was buried on 
the 7th. 

1705, July 17. — Governor Conibury says wool- 
en manufactures are setting up, and he lias seen 
pcrge made on J^oiig Island, that any man might 
wear. 

1705, Oet. 20. — " Mr. Urquhart is well chosen 
for the people of Jamaica, and indeed, 1 liiink, 
none litter tliau tlir Scotch Episcopal to deal with 
Whigs and fanatics of all sorts. II;ul not Hub- 
bard been allowed to preach, he would have 
brought them all to the church by this time ; but 
now they resort to a barn that is h;ud by and will 



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not j)ay Mr. Urquliart what is allowed by law. 
tiiough My Lord Conibury has given orders for 
it " — Talbot in Keitli's Joitnud. 

1705, Dec. 12.— "William, John, Daniel, and 
Jona. Lawrence, cut down the fence of AVilliam 
Hallet, Newtown, with axes. 

1706, Jan. 5. — Thanksgiving day for the suc- 
cess of His Majesty's arms. 

1706, Jan. 7. — Christmas day was the coldest 
day ever felt in New York. The Hudson was 
frozen over and continued fast for several days. 

170C, Jan. 21. — Extraordinary warm weather 
for twelve day.s past. 

1700, Jiili/ 20. — Eiiibnrgo laid on shipiiiiig in 
New York for .«ixty days ; shoj)s shut, uo ordinary 
work to be doiirs Viut all must turn out and work 
on thc^ fortiiications. 15esides those in tlic Fort, 
one hundred cannon ai-e mounted. — Boston KeifS 
Letter. 

1706, Oct. 14. — Great rains and mighty floods 
in and about New York. 

1707, Jan. 14. — At a general town meeting 
held in Hempstead, according to Act of Assembly, 
by major vote of the peojde, John .'^earing, Cap- 
tain John Carman, .lohii I'readwell, Jr., Isaac 
Doty, Sr., Abraham I'nderhill, Morris .Shadbolt/' 
and Nathaniel Coles, are chosen Vestrymen fui'', 
the present j'ear. ; and ]\lr. Thomas Jones .and 
Thomas Gildei'sleevc, Church ^Vardcns. — Itecor(l\ 
B, p. 193. 

1707, Jan. 29. — So mild a winter never known' 
All this month, except a day or two, was lik 
March or Ai)ril. 

1707, Jan. 20. — ^At a meeting of the JusticesJ 
Church "Wardens and ^'estry, the Assessors arcA 
ordered to assess every free-holder and sojounieri 
in Hempstead and the bounds thereof, to raise" th 
sum of U.'40 for the minister, £5 for the poor, aiK 
.=€2, 5s. for the Collector's salary. — Ilccoids B, jO.' 
194. 

1707. — Dr. Henry Taylor, of Flushing had his' 
barn burnt. — Col. A[ss., 'r,2. 

1707, Jan. 23.— The Rev. John Hami)ton, a 
itinerant minister, preached on Sunday, January 
20th, in the Presbyterian church, Newtown, with 
out having fir.-^t jirocured a license from Governor 
Cornbury and also gave notice that Kev. Francii 
Makemie would ofliciatc there on AVednesday, 
lint Cornbury anticipating them, had them both 
aiTCsted, as soon as they reached Newtown, by 
Thomas Cardahs'lligh SheriiVof Queens county,' 
and Stephen LiilV, I'luler Sherift'. They wereV 
kept as prisoners on parole, at the houses of two 
of the neighbors that night. The next day they 
were led otf in a sort of triumph to Jamaica, seven 
or eight miles out of the direct road, and there kept 
all day and night. (Jn the 2:id, at noon, they got 
to the Fort in NeM''York. After vexatious delays 



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they ^•cre ti'ied for dit'semiuatinp; doctrines " to 
the great disturbance of the clnuxh as by law es- 
tablished." The jury .acquitted them but the Gov- 
ernor had a heavy bill of cost.«i imjiosed on them, 
^S3, Vs., 6d., which they had to pay before they 
were set free. — Narrative of Iinprisonmmf. 

1707, Jan. 26. — On Saturday night, William 
Hallet, Jr., Esq., of Newto\\ni, his wife and five 
children, were all. inhumanlj- murdered by an In- 
dian man and negro ^^'oman, their own slaves, who 
were apprehended and confessed the fact. They 
did it, as is said, because they were restrained from 
going abroad on Sabbath days. They were exe- 
cuted at Jamaica, Jlonday, Febiaiary 2d, and put 
to all the torments possible for a terror to others of 
ever attempting the like wickedness. . Several 
other families were destined for the like slaughter, 
had they succeeded in tins without discovery. 
Febniary 10. — On Saturday last two negro men 
were also executed at Jamaica, as accessaries to 
this barbarous murdci-, and several otliers are in 
ciTstody. Oiu- ChiefJustice, Judges and Attorney- 
General, are indefatigable in the discovery of the 
negro plot and Vjloody murder, and are still sitting 
at Jamaica iu prosecution thereof. — Boston News 
Letter. 

1707, Juhj 7.^A convenient farm between 
1|^ Huntington and Oysterbay, of 3,000 or 4,000 

acres, on a neck called Queens Village alkts Horse 
Neck— good meadow:, well wooded and watered. 
iTon or twelve rods of fence will enclose the whole, 
ive hundred acres, more or less, are to hire. — Bos- 
ton Ncics Letter. 

1708, Sept, 2. — Divers of the principal inhabi- 
ftants of Queens County petition the Assembly for 

i a law to repair or build anew the County Hall and 
\common jail. Granted. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 221. 

1709, A2iril 5. — John Talman and John Town- 
send arc elected to the Assembly. The return of 

jtlie latter is unsuccessfully contested by William 
j Lawrence and Thomas AVaters. Cornelius Willet, 
High Shei-iff, prays to be re-imbursed his great ex- 
penses iu defending himself against the groundless 
complaint of said Lawrence and Water.s. — Ass. 
Jour., 1 : 241. 

1709, Koi: 10. — A writ is issued for electing two 

I members of the present Assembly, in the rooms of 
Mr. John Talman and Captain John Townsend, 
deceased. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 267. 

1710, July 4. — Jona. Everett, brother of John, 
Sheriff of Queens Coimty, was in New York, at 
the house of Mr. Cure, victualler, when a ditference 

i happened between Everett and one John Harold, 
a saUor, who violently beat and disfigured Everett 
so that he came home sick and died on tlic 16th. 
Verdict of the Coroner's Jury that he was mur- 
dered by Harold, who iu the mean time had fled 
on board one of His Maj«sty's ships. — Col. Mss., 
Vol 51. 

1710, Sejif. 12.— James Clements, William Wil- 



lis, Thomas Jones, Peter Ben-ian, and Zachariah 
Mills, Supervisors of Queens County, pray that a 
bill may be brought in the Assembly to confirm the 
piu-eliase of a Comity Hall and Jail, and to sell the 
old hall and two jails, and the land between the 
old and new builduigs — the land to run back till it 
meets the Parsenage lot. — Ass. Journal, 1 : 274. 

1710, Sejit. 13. — An act passed to enable the Su- 
pervisors of Queens County to sell the old County 
Hall and Prisons, and confirm their purchase of 
new ones. The people of Jamaica pray that they 
may be supjiorted iu their property of the lands on 
which the gaols and sessions house stood, and the 
lands between them. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 275-7. 

1711, Juli/ 9. — The Governor requires the peo- 
ple's houses in Jamaica to be inspected for pork, 
bacon and other provisions, by Richard Oldfield, 
who reports 13,615 lbs. wheat flour, 622 bushels 
wheat and 5,583 lbs. salt meat. — Cot.Mss., Yol.oo. 

1711, July IC. — Thomas Whitehead was Cap- 
tain of a company of Queens County militia, to go 
on an expedition to Canada. J ohu Lokison was 
in Captain Jackson's companj' to go to Albany. — 
Col. Mss., 5.5. 

1711, July IS. — Several inhabitants of Queens 
County petition the Assembly that if their appren- 
ticss be compelled to go on the Expedition to 
Canada, their masters may reap the benefit. — Ass. 
Jour., 4 : 293. 

1712, Kov. 4. — Samuel Baylis, Esq., and other 
inhabitants of Q,ueens County, petition the Assem- 
bly to lessen the rewards for killing squirrels, 
crows or blackbirds and their young ones. — Ass. 
Jour., 1 : 328. 

1716, Auy. 31. — A bill was brought iu the As- 
sembly to encourage the destroj-ing of foxes and 
wild cats on Long Island. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 389. 

1712. — Two depositions are sent to Governor 
Hunter against Jona. Wright, for not paying the 
" listing " money for the late expedition and using 
contemptuous language. 

1712, May 21, (Wednesday) was Thanksgiving 
day for deliverance from the negro plot. ]\Ir. 
Poyer preached at Jamaica from Psalms, 5:11. 

1713, Nov. 20.— Was buried at the Kills, New- 
town, Iiichard Betts, aged 113 years. — Foyer's 
Eccords. 

1714, May 10. — Sheep-parting at Isaac Smith's, 
Herricks, for washing and shearing ; and ou the 
first Monday iu October, when they are to be 
driven oS the Flaius.— Town liecords. 

1714, Dec. 20. — On Friday, Deborah Grycc 
was hanged at Jamaica for murdering her child. 
After conviction she confessed die fact. — Cor. of 
Boston Kcus Letter. 

1715, Jan. 3. — On Friday, a free negro woman 
was hanged at Jamaica for murdering her child. — 

Boston Xcws Letter. 



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QUEENS COUNTY 



1718, Svpl. 2S. — Richard Combo.", Deputy Con- 
etalje, baviug received a warrant with an ar'sess- 
nient annexed, to levy the ministers rate, went to 
the hou.«e of Daniel Bull, Jamaica, and demanded 
his proportion thereof. Bull said he woiikl pay 
nothing, on which the Constable said he must di.s- 
train. Bull immediately took up an axe and 
Bwinginj; it over the constable's head said, in verj- 
great haste, he \voukl split his brains if he touched 
any thuig there. Trcsently Jacamiah Denton 
came to the window, whom the constable com- 
manded, in the l-ung's name, to assist him, but he 
laughed and refused to obey. Combes then went 
up and do%vn town and mustered sixteen or sev- 
enteen people, but when he returned he found Bidl, 
William Carman, Samuel and Henry Ludlum, 
Robert and Htzekiah Denton, and Ephraim Smith, 
Btanding before the door with great clubs in their 
hands, and stripped to their waistcoats, who lifting 
up their clubs, bid him come if he durst, and gave 
him a great deal of scurrilous language. Bull then 
advanced two or three steps from his companv to- 
wards tlic constable, and told him if he came" one 
foot forward, he would knock out his brains. The 
constable then seeing there were twenty or thirty 
persons in Bull's company walked off and made no 
distress. It aj)pears that when the constable or- 
dered Robert Deuton, Thomas Thurston, Adam 
Smith and three or four others to aid and assist 
Lim, George JIcNish, the I'resbyterian minister, 
told them not to mind or obey him. The rioters 
apologized December ISth, and were let off with a 
fine of d£2C 10s.]— Doc. His., 3, 287. 

1720, Feb. 12.— Tim Bagley has license to 
manufacture oil from whales driven ashore on the 
south coast of Long Island. 

1720, Oct. 28. — A bill was brought in the Asscm- 
bly to empower the Justices of (Queens County to 
sell then- County IIou.*e and Jail, in Jamaica, and 
build another where they shall think most conve- 
nient, in said county. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 44J. 

1721, Fcl. 24.— This day there was a famous 
Lorse race run for ^£60, between the inhabitants of 
Queens County and Samuel Ba^'ard, merchant, of 
New York, where the latter gained but little. 

1721, Sept. 11. — The distemper among horses 
continues and spreads on Long Island, and not 
only horses, but also many ueat cattle and hogs 
are dead. 

1722, Sept. 20.— John Clhanders is tried for 
forgerj' in chi-ating Moses Funnan. His bonds- 
men were Robert Cranell and Eolkert Uarman. 

1722, Sept. 20. — Andrew Gale, Jamaica, ii tried 
for mnrdcr. Verdict, not guilty. ^Vitnesses for 
the King — Phebc Carpenter, Conielius Loesic, 
AVilliani Johnston, John Mills, Samuel Clowes, 
Richard Oldfield and Nehemiah .'^mith ; for the 
prisoner — John Carpenter, Gabriel Luff, Daniel 
Smith, Thoniis Thurston, and Abigail Gale.— 
Jmljc Jiljjrris's JLiiiutes. 



1722. — Before November 12th, James Loquar^' 
school-m:u?ter, of Jamaica, had died. His effect* 
were under XOO. Rev. George McXish, as chief 
creditor, was appointed administrator. — County 
Hccords. 

1722, Nor. 29.— Ran away from Kzekiel Bald- 
win, of Hempstead, one Indian rmm. slave, named 
Dick, of middle stature, and of a sniiHng counten- 
ance. He speaks English pretty^ well and no other 
language, and can read, lie has a big nose and | 
ha.s white scratches on his anns and a blue spot on I 
the inside of one of his wrists, a little above his I 
shirt wristbands. He ran away about the begin- 
ning of September, and luid on a -jomespun shirt 
and a dark colored druggi-t coat. • AVe have been 
informed that he intended to get into Indian 
habit. Others tell that he has said he would go 
toward New London and Rhode Island and so to 
sea. AVhoever can take up said Indian man and 
secure him, and give notice t» his ma.ster, so that 
he can be had again, shall have three pounds re- 
ward, besides reasonable charges. — Amer. Weekly 
Mercury, I'hila. 

1723, April 2. — John Baker is chosen whipper 
for Hempstead and the bomids thereof. — Bcconls, 
I), p. 330. 

1723, 2Iay 3,-:- Thomas Lynstead, bom in Eng- 
land, and of loose religious principles, had taught , 
school at Oysterbay two years, when l>oing di-tect- 1 
ed by 5Irs. Alberfsou in having false money bills, \ 
of the denomination of 20a\, in his possession, in; 
a stocking, he hung himself in a stable, at Hemp 
stead. A large jiarcel of these bills, suppo.-ed to 
be printed in Ireland, were afterward found in a 
hollow tree near Jamaica, and burnt, by order of the 
Assembly. — Col. Mss., 65, and Ass. jour., 1 : C40, 

1723, June 2.5. — Tim Bagley has a commission 
as ranger in the Island of Nassau in place of 
Hicks. 

1723, July 5. — The Jhstioes of the Peace in 
Queens County are authorized to repair the gaols 
and Court House. — Ass. Journal, 1 : 409. 

1724, May 20. — By order of the Supreme Court, 
Richard Bradley, Attomoy-General, prosecuted 
Colonel Isaac Hicks and Colonel Thomas AVillet, 
Representatives of Queens County, together with 
all the other Justices of the Peace, for the insuffi- 
ciency of the County Jail. The House vote it a 
breach of privilege. Hicks and Willet have leave 
to go home a few days on extraordinary business. — 
Ass. Jour., 1 : 501 >. 

1724, June ll»-T-A'bill was brought in the As- 
si'mbly to enable the Justices of the Peace, in 
(Queens County, to finish and complete the gaol and 
Court Uoufie already erected. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 504. 

1725, Sejjh. 13. — Mr. Benjamin Hicks is elected 
to the Assembly, in room of Colonel Thomas Wil- 
let, deceased. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 516. 

1725, Dec. 10. — The house occupied by the 



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T\-idow Helena Semiss, at Flushing', was acciden- 
tally set on fire and all. her snhstance burnt.; Loss 
^'60, exclusive of the house, which was uot hers. 
She being aged, petitions the Governor for a li- 
cense to solicit donations. — Col. Mss.,.VoI. 67. 

17i(5i, Dec.' 20. — Samuel, a colored mrm, of 
Flushing, was executed, at Jamaica, for burglary 
in that place. 

1727, 3farcJi 10. — Died, Samuel MlUs, yeomac, 
of Jamaica, aged 9-5 years. Ho was bom in 
Americn, and always a very laborious, honest man 
of ver}' temperate life, and able to do a good day's 
work but a icv,- days before he died. He left be- 
hind him nine children, eighty grand-childred, fifty- 
four great granj-chtldrcu ; and several of the last 
are ijai-riageaUlei His wife was delivered of a 
chikl when she was 51 j"ears old. He lived sixty- 
eight years with her, and she is still alive, and has 
had sixteen children. — JV. Y. Gazette. 

1727, Oct 30. — Last night, between the hours 
of ten and eleven, we had a small shock of an 
earthquake, which awaked some people out of 
their sleep. The same night there were two 
shocks on Long I.^land. 

1727. — At a Court in XewYork, December 4th, 
David Wallace and David WUson, convicted of a 
cheat, in passing.some counterfeit bUl.s of credit, of 
Xew Jersey, are sentenced to stand in the Pillory, 
on the 12th inst., between the hom-s of ten and 
eleven ; and then placed in a cart, so as to be 
publicly seen, with a halter about their necks, and 
brought to the publick whipping post, and there 
to receive, the former thuty-nine, and the latter, 
twenty-eight, stinpes ; then, after a convenient time, 
to be taken to the Ferry, and, on the 3d Tuesday 
in January-, to be set in the Pillory, at Flatbush,* 
and be whipped as before ; then to-b(^ conveyed to 
Jamaica,* and, on the 4th Tuesda}' in Februar}-, to 
stand OQ the Pillory and be whipped as before ; 
then to be served the same in ^^estehester,* on the 
4th Tuesday in March ; after all which Wallace is 
to be imprisoned six months, and Wilson three 
months, and then discharged on paying their fees. 
—Smd/ord's -Y. Y. Gazette. 

1728. — The Jamaica Fair opens Tuesday, May 
6th, and continues four days, when there -tt-ill be 
exposed to sale a variety of goods, merchandize 
and several fine horses. It is expected the LIOX 
will be there to be seen. — A\ Y. Gas., Xo. 131. 

1728, Atiff. 9.— Josiah MUlikin, of Mnsketo / 
Cove, periwig maker, denies that he gave any in- 
formation to the Custom House officers, whereby 
they were enabled to discover and seize several 
casks, of imported brandy and wine concealed in 
Captain Walton's cellar. — N. Y. Gazette, Xo. 146. 

1728, Dec. 28.— The pleurisy has raged pretty 
much in these p.orts and several have died thereof. 

•These being the places where they had passed the 
counterfeit bills. 



1730, Aug. 6. — We hear from Long Island that 
they have haxi sneh very dry weather there that 
all their grass -is biu-nt up so that they have been 
forced to fodder their cattle with their first ci-on of 
hay. — Arner. Moreury. 

n32,Jctn. 9. — In and about Jamaica, one hun- 
di-ed and sixty persons have been inocidated for 
the small pox, and none have died but Foster Wa- 
ter's, who had taken the infection before and fell 
sick the day after he was inoculatvHl. On the 
other hand one-half died of those who took it in 
the natural way. — X. Y. Gazette. 

1732, March 27.— Last week the wife of William 
Humphreys, of Hempstead, was brought to bed of 
a daughter, which child's grandfather hath a grand 
mother yet li\'iug, being of that age that she can 
say : " Grandson, send me your granddaughter, 
that I may have the pleasure to see of my issue 
one of the fifth generation." — X. Y. Gazette. 

1732, Mai/ 1. — Xotice. — All persons who have 
any demands on tht estate of the Eev. Mr. Thomas 
Poycr, deceased, late rector of the church at Ja- 
maica, are dei-ned to send then- accoimts to his 
widow in order for their being satisfied. Those 
persons v.-ho have boiTowed any books of Mr. Poy- 
cr, are desired to retm-n them immediately.— jV. Y. 
Gazette. 

1732. — The house where Mr. Poyer lately lived 
in, at Jamaica, with a lot of land thereto adjoining ; 
his household goods, books, and other things, will 
be sold at public vendue, to the highest bidders, on 
Monday, the 30th day of 3Iay next. [Mr. Poyer, 
a native of Wales, was over twenty years rector of 
the church, most of which time was spent in vexa- 
tious litigation, either for the salary or possession 
of tlie church and parsonage. The church and 
parsonage cases were finally decided against him. 
He left a record of his baptisms, marriages and bmi- 
als. On his voyage. to this country he, with his 
wife Frances, was wrecked on Long Island, about 
one himdred miles east of Jam:uca. His second 
wife is said to have been a widow Foxcroft, from 
Boston. His thnd -s^-ife was Miss Sarah Oldfield, of 
Jagiaica, whom he left a widow in destitute circum- 
stances, -svith several children, of whom little is 
known, except that his son Daniel went to Eng- 
land, Thomas, a cordwainer, mitrried Margaret 
Hicks, of Rockawa}-, and removed to FishkOl, 
John married Mary KlMads, of Jamaica, and re- 
/iuovcd to Xew Jersey, Joseph died at the ao-e 
'of five years,- and his daughter Sarah married 
Aaron Van Xootrand. There were many difficul- 
ties attendant on settUng the early mmisters of 
the Church of England, in this town, as they 
all came. from the old country. The first sent 
over was the Eev. Patrick Gordon, in 1702, who 
was taken suddenly ill of a fever he caught in Xew 
York,, and died in July, at Jamaica, on the very 
night before the Sunday on which he was to offici- 
ate. Mr. James Houeyman, the first Missionary 
established here for a short time, says : " We have 



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a cliurcli Imt ntitlior bible nor prayer book, and 
no clotlu'S for tlic piiljiit or altar. Mr. I'rquihart, 
tlic first rector here wui? inducted iuAugiist, 1704. 
He married, at Janiaica, Mary, dai^;liter of Daniel 
Wliitcliead, and widow of Thoma.s liun-ou'^li.*, and 
died in 1709. It was his widow (whcse daughter 
Abifrail, by a former husband, married the Rev. 
Benjamin Woolsey, of Oysterbay,) that t-urren- 
dered the parsonage to the I're.^byterians. Mr. 
I'oyer was inducted here July ISth, 1710 aud 
died January 15th, 1732. j 

Govenior Cornbury writes to Thomas Cardale, 
High Sheriff of (Queens County : " You are hereby 
re(|uired to pay unto !Mr. James Iloneyman out of 
the money made of the corn 'by you collected for 
the maintenance of the minister of Jamaica, jn-o- 
portionably for the time he has been at Jamaica, 
according to the allowance made by act of Cieneral 
Assembly; and hereof you arc not to fail. Given 
under mv hand and seal at Fort Aunc, in ^^e^v 
York, Ju'ly 19th, 1704." 

[Tlie minister's rate was often paid in the pro- 
duce of the farm which was stored, till sold, in a 
building erected for the purpose, called the town- 
bam.] 

1733, Srpt, 4. — James Halstead, tried for burn- 
ing a barn. Verdict, not guilty. 

1733. — On .Saturday last, Sejit. l-Jth, was exe- 
cuted at Jamaica, one Edward King, a tinker, as 
we hear, for the murder of AVilliam Smith, on the 
highway, near l-'hishing, by giving him a mortal 
stab in" the breast with a knife, of which he in- 
stantly died, crying : "Lord ! have mercy on my 
poor soul." The fact was discovered by an Indian, 
who was in the wood and saw the same committed. 
"Witnesses for the prisoner, .Susana utiles, Helena 
Balsey, and Christopher Farmer; for the King, 
.Sarali Hyvank, Adam Lawrence, Jacob Ryder, 
John Ityder, Jr., Justice Clements, George Reyn- 
olds, Edmund Stickling, Samuel IVince, John 
liowne, Jr. and Sr., Francis liloodgood, ]Iugh Ry- 
der, James Ilalstcad and IMary Cook.— Court 
Minutes. 

1733, Oct. 31. — Rhode Island having a boun- 
dary dispute with JIassachusctts, chose Colonel 
Isaac Hicks, of Hempstead, and James JackscDi, 
of Flushing, r(iere<'S, and was so pleased with their 
conduct therein that the colony voted each of them 
a silver tankard of the value of JIM, with the arms 
of the colony handsomely engraved thereon, as an 
acknowledgement of their assistance in endeavor- 
ing to reconcile aud put an end to thi' dispute be- 
tween the two goverumcuts. — Arnold's Jlist. lihode 
Island, 2 : 112. 

1734, April 8. — On Friday last the new erected 
church, at Jamaica, was opened by the name of 
Grace Churcii, and divines service performed there- 
in, for the tirst time. The minister of the parish, 
the Rev. Mr. Thomas Colgan, preached a sermon 
upon the occasion, from Genesis, 28 : KJ, 17. His 
Excellency the Governor [CosbyJ, his lady and 



whole family, were pleased to honor the meeting 
with their presence, and by their very generous 
benefactions great encouragement was given to a 
charitable contrilmtion for the finishing and com- 
pleting so good a work — a work dedicated to the 
service of God. The militia was under ai-ms to 
attend His Excellency, aud so great a concourse of 
I)eoiile met, that the church was not near able to 
contain the number. After the sermon was ended 
His Excellency and family, and several gentlemen, 
ladies and clergy, Mere very splendidly entertained 
at the house of JIi'. Sannnl Clowes, a tavern, in 
the same town, bv the members of the said cbui-cb. 
—Bradford's X. 'l'. Guzittc. 

1734, Sept. 14. — Henry Uinton, Jamaica, is 
indicted for accidentally shooting Ezekiel Weeks. 
The Grand Jury return: "We don't know." 
Whereupon he was discharged. — Court Minutes. 

1734, JJce. 19. — At Newtown, a nepo man 
slave, named Joe, belonging to William I'ettit, 
cordwaiuer, and one Jonathan Hunt, was killed by 
said I'ettit. The jury of inijuist found by e.\ami- 
nation that I'ettit, with his fist and feet, beat, 
woiHuled, kicked aud brui.sed the negro on his 
head, breast and other parts of his body to that 
degree that he instantly died thereof, for which 
I'ettit is now iu Jamaica j.iil. 

1734, Kor. 1. — At a town meeting it was put t" 
vote, as concerning the moving of the seats out of 
the old church into the new church ; and b}' the 
major vote they are to be moved into the new 
church. — Ucmpstead Hccords, D,]i. 417. 

173j_On Tuesday, April 22d, His E.\celleucy 
our Governor, with his lady and family, attiiuled 
by a great many of the yirincipal merchants and 
gentlemen of the city of New York, set out for 
Hem))stead, to be present at the •consecratiim of 
the church lately erected there.* About si.x miles 
west of Jamaica he was met by the troops of 
horse, who escorted him to Jamaica, where a hand- 
some dinner was provided for all the cmnpany. 
In the afternoon he proceeded to Hempstead, es- 
corted as before, where he an-ived in the evening, 
and was entertained in a verj- handsome manner 
l)y the Rev. Robert Jenny, minister of tliat place. 
The next day being St. CJeorgc's day, the regiment 
of militia and troop being drawn up on either side 
from Mr. Jenny's house to the fhurch. His Ex- 
cellency, attended by the most considerable gentle- 1 
men of the county, walked to the church where a 
very excellent sermon was preached on the occa- 
sion, before a most crowded audieiu-e, by the Rev. 
Jlv. Jeiuiy, from I's. 84 : 1, 2 : " How amiable arc 
thy tabernacles," etc. After divine service His 
I'^xcellency reviewed the regiment of militia and 
troops standing under arms, and expresed a jiarticu- 
lar satisfaction on the appearance both of the olH- 
ccrs and men. His Excellency was afterwards 

*17:r), June ST.— rolitiim for cli:iiter of J-it. (icurge's 
C'liuicli, 1 leinpstcail, read aud approved. — Cut. Mss., I o/. 70. 



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entertaiued in a pplciidicl manner bj' Colonel 
Trcdwell, commander of the regiment, and in tlic 
evening by Colonel Cornwell, at IJockaway, in 
the same manner. The next day lie returned and 
arrived in town in good health, pleaijed ^vith the 
reception he everywhere met with from all ranks, 
with the extraordinary concourse of people from 
all parts, on the occasion, and wth the handsome 
appearance of the miUtia both horse and foot. — X. 
Y. Gazette. 

17.35, Jtme 27. — Petitioners for a Patent of In- 
corporation of the cluirch at Hempstead. — Col. 
Mss., 70 : 131. 

Balden, George, Marvin, Robert, 

Clowes, Gerhardus, Mitchell, Jacataiah, 

Cornell, "WiUiam, Jr., Jlott, Joseph, 

Cornell, Thomas, Jr., Peters, Charles, 

Cornell, John, 2, Pine, James, Sr. 

Cornell, Richard, Jr., Roe, John, 

Cornell, "William, Smith, Peter, Jr., 

Germon, Isaac, Smith, Timothy, 

Gildersleeve, Thomas, Smith, Peter, 

Gildei-sleeve, George, Smith, Jacob, 

Hewlett, Daniel, Smith, Joseph, 

Hngins, James, Smith, Titus, 

Jcnuey, Robert, Rev., Sutton, Robert, 

Langdon, Joseph, Thorn, Joseph, 

Lee, Thomas, AVilliams, Thomas, 
Langdon, William, 

173.5, Scjit. 2.— S;unuel TTeeks, Sr. and Jr., of 
Oysterbay, are indicted for pulling down and rob- 
bing the house of James Halstead. 

173-3, Sejit. 2. — Jacob Lewis, of Oysterbay, is 
tried for altering the mark and stealing steers off 
the Common. 

173-5, Koi: 7. — Colonel Hicks presented to the 
Assembly a petition from Queens County which 
attributed the decay of trade in the colony and 
the lessening of the price of laud in Queens County, 
in a great measure, to the long continuance of the 
Assembly. That body vote the charge to be both 
unjust and audacious. — Ass. Journal, 1 : 6S7. 

1736, March 8. — Last Thursday night, about 
ten or elcA'en o'clock, the house of Benjamin Lawr- 
ence, of Flushing, was burnt to the ground, and 
nothing of his goods saved. The man and ■\\'oman 
had been abroad about their aftairs, and at that 
time, the man coming home saw the house all in a 
flame and ran iu and pulled his four small children 
out of their bed and threiv them naked upon the 
snow, and attempted to fetch out some of his goods, 
but the fire was so far advanced tliat he could not 
get the least rag to cover his children's nakedness, 
to keep them from the piercing cold of that night, 
but all was burnt. The same day Thomas Wil- 
lets had occasion to drive his cattle over a creek 
on the ice, which breaking in he lost eight cows. — 
N. Y. Gazette. 

1736, Murcli 31.— The widow of Thomas Par- 
myter, ofi'crs for sale her farm, with pleasant gar- 
den, at "Whitestone, opposite Frog's Point. It has 



twenty acres of clay gi'ound fit for makuig tobacco 
jnpes. For sale, also, two negro slaves, with uten- 
sils and other conveniences for carrj-iug ou that 
business.— jy. Y. Gazette. 

1736, Sept. 27.— Ou the 6th inst., the house, 
warehouse, and all the gjoods and merchandizes of 
ilr. John Foster, at Flushing, at midnight, were 
consumed to ashes, and little or nothing saved but 
his books and papers and the scriptorc which they 
were in. ^Loss computed at =£2,000. It is feared 
it was done by some malicious person. — N. Y. 
Gazette. 

1737. — -Pcw-holders in Grace Church, Jamaica : 
Betts, Richard, Richard, Jr. ; Bridges, Timothy ; 
Clark, Andrew ; Clowes, Samuel, Samuel, Jr. ; 
Colgan, Thomas ; Furman, Robert ; Howell, Rob- 
ert ; Luft', Gabriel ; Poyer, Sarah, c/ratis ; Reyn- 
olds, George; Sawj-er, Daniel; Smith, Samuel ; 
Steed, William ; Taylor, Benjamin ; Thome Ben- 
jamin ; Van Hook, Isaac ; Waters, Anthony ; 
Welling, William ; Whitehead, Benjamin and 
Daniel; WiUet, Edward; Willets, John; Wig- 
gins, William and Silas ; AVright Henry ; Young, 
Guy. Also see Doc. His., 3 : 32i, for twenty-one 
petitioners for a charter. 

1737, Ajiril 2-5. — Vast losses have been sus- 
tained in this colony and those adjacent by the 
death of cattle for the want of fodder, and many 
persons have been almost ruined thereby. AYe 
hear from Long Island that -5,000 head of cattle 
have been lost this winter (of which eight hundred 
and fifty died in the town of Hempstead) besides 
sheep and lambs innumerable. — N. Y. Gazette. 

173-7, June 2. — At an election in Queens County, 
for two members of the General Assembly, held 
at Jamaica, the candidates and votes were as 
follows : Colonel Isaac Hicks, 432 ; David Jones, 
Esq., 390 ; Cajitain Benjamin Hicks, 342, and 
Thomas Alsop, Esq., 287. The first two named | 
were chosen, and treated the electors very hand- 
somely. Two things were very remarkable at this 
election. One was that the Quakers, Avho used 
formerly to stick together as one man, were divid- 
ed. The other that two old widows tendered and 
were admitted to vote ; and it is said these two 
old ladies will be chosen constables for the next 
yeai-. 

1737, Bee. 12,— Dorcas, alias Tabitha, wife of 
Peter Buckhout, of Newtown, is eloped from her 
husband's bed and board. Merchants, shopkeep- 
ers and others ai-e deshed not to trust her. — Zen- 
rjer. 

1738.- Saturday, July 19th, then broke out of 
Jamaica Gaol, William Wiggins, 50 years old, of a 
long visage, and short gray hair, very talkative 
and stammers. He had on an old home-spun coat 
and jacket, old sheepskin breeches and broad 
brimmed beaver hat. Also, Amos Langdon, slow 
of speech, a weaver, aged 30, who had on an old 
gray worsted coat, double breasted camblet jacket, 
snuff-colored, old leather breeches, gray homespun 



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stocking.=, tlng-skiu shoes, and a narrow .lirijnijjed 
boavcr liat, halt" -worn. .£J0 rt-ward an4 <'l\.a''g<'* 
for the forincr, and £3 for the hitter, aro offered \>y 
George Ecjuolds, Under Sheriff. — N, Y. Gazette. 

173S.-.-.Jamo8 Jones offers at public vendue, 
July 2Gth, to the highe.<t hiddcri', a fanu, at 
Wliitcstone, (late Parrayfer':<) of fifteen acres, with 
garden and orchard, a pleasant seat on the Sound 
for a gentleman, or a store ; also, a largi' quantity 
of pipe-maker's clay, tools for making pii)es, some 
I negroes, a new chaise and a good horse to draw it, 
I a pleasure boat well fitted, household goods aud 
other things. — N. Y. Gasetlc. 

nSB, Dec. 12.— On Wednesday, at 11 o'clock 
at night, wc felt an r.-irth quake. Tiie first sense 
was like a strong gale of wind, whiirli increased till 
it resinibled the noise of coaches swiftly driven. 
"We had one single shock, and after a few seconds 
a violent tremor of upwards of a minnt^'. It 
moved from west to east. Some houses on Ijong 
Island were somewhat damaged, but as yejt wc 
have beard of no considerable damage. 

1 740, June 23. — There are to be raised in Amc 
rica, three thousand men, to form thirty companies, 
of one luuidrid men each. The captains, second- 
lieutenants and ensigns of which, are to be appoint- 
ed by the Governors of the several Provinces, but 
the first-licutcnants are to come from England. 
The general rendezvous is appointed by His Ma- 
jesty to be on lldnpstcad Plains, where they arc 
to encamp. These forces arc destined for the ex- 
pedition against the territories of the Catholic King, 
in the West Indies. — Boston Ncivs Letter. 

1740, Sept. 2. — Samuel Baldwin, of Hempstead, 
is presented to the Grand Jm-y for offering money 
to the Sheriff to get such a jury as he should name, 
for Urias Haff, of Oysterbay. 

1740, Oct. 13. — Richard Combs was hanged for 
felony and burglary. The Court ordered the 
money and stolen goods to be returned to Benja- 
min liinchman, Jamaica. [WitnC'Sses (for the 
King) Benjamin lliiichiuan, .\jithony Walters, 
George Ifeynolds, Itiduud Cole, Thom^is WaJton 
and Joseph Smith.; , 

1741, Feb. .0. — There is a gre.^t scarcity in Bos- 
ton. JIaryland and Long Island wheat is offered 
for sale at" the Boston Jlills, at 22s. per bushel, for 
bills of credit of any currency except Manufactory 
or Land Bank liLlls. 

174], Fch. 23. — By our accounts from the coun- 
try, the people herealwuts are in so great want of 
fodder for tlieir cattle in several places that foiw 
cow.^ are given to have one returned in ifay,-and 
that the cold has been so severe that even deer, 
squirrels and birds, have been found irozen to 
death. Great quantities of sheep have perished. 
Wood sold this day for 40s. per cord. — N. Y. Ga- 
zette. 

' 1741, Jidi/ 29.— Charles Campbell (now of Ja- 
I maica) offers for sale the plantation late of Tluo- 

i: 



donis V. Wyck, at the head of Great Neck, close 
by the ri\-er or sound, twenty miles from New 
York, and a mile from )h<j landing. It contains 
two hundred and seven acres (of which fifty is 
wooded), bears wheat and cuts sixty loads of hay, 
and is M-ell watered with brooks aud springs. (Jn 
it is a house, three stories high, milk-housv ajid two 
large orchards. — X. Y. Gazette. 

1741, Sept. 1. — The negro slaves in New York 
were suspected of a plot to set fire to the city aud 
kill the whitos, with a view of gaining their free- 
dom. A large number was executed. It was 
supposed the Long Island negroes were to join 
those of Xew York, and some aiTcsts were made. 
Among others, Johannes Ilardeuburgh's 11'///, 
.Justice Willet's llijliin, aud John Dorland's Jack — 
all of Jamaica. The evidence against them 
amonnted only to this, that M'ill said to Itobin 
" AVhat think you of Corlears Hook or the plot ?" 
" D — u it," replied Itiibi)}, " I'll liave nothing to do 
with it or to say to it. If they (the slaves) will 
put their fingers in the fire they mui=t feel the 
pain ; let them go on and prosper." For this 
their masters were obliged to enter- into recogni- 
zances for their appearance at the Queens County 
( )yer and Terminer, ^vhen they were discharged. 
In Kings County, Christopher Codwise's J((ch 
and Cunibriilno, and .Israel Ilorsefield's Cesar, and 
Timothy Ilorsefield's Guise were ahiOAnvsted on 
a diarge of conspiracy. C'csnr was sentenced to 
be transported to Cape Francois, and Guise to St. 
Thomas, jioctor Hurry, a negro slave fif ^Fr. J. 
!Mescrole, was sentenced to be burnt to death, on 
the ISth of July. 

1741, Oct. 14. — Joseph Smith and Xath.anicl 
Pearsall having lain in Jamaica jail several years, 
for debt, jietition the Assembl\- for relief. Tliey 
alledge that their creditors are inexorable, although 
they have offered to give up all their property. — 
Ass. Journal, 1 : 814. 

1741, Xov. 13.— The ferry boat of Major Thomas 
Jones, of Oysterbay, was overset in the Sound, 
and himself, his. negro, three men and one woman, 
who were passengers, with six horses, were all 
drowned. 

1743, Fch. 21.— At Musketo Cove, a sheep was 
killed last week which weighed one hundred and 
fifty-two pounds. Fine mutton doubtless ! 

1743, June 20. — We are here very nnu-h infest- 
ed with caterpillars and worms of an uncdunnou 
kind, which liave done abundance of ini.-ichiif about 
Xew York, in one farm cspeciaify, where they have 
destroyed a field of barley upwards of a mile in 
leufrth. AN'hat ilio. issue of it will be, God only 
knows ; for we hear they arc numerous in several 
parts of the country. 

1744, Jan. 0. — A comet was seen the beginning 
of last week in the west, and may be seen from 
sutiset till midnight. Feb. 27. — The comet, so 
nuich talked of lately, is now got, to oiu- appear- 



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ancera small distance before the sun, and appears 
i-cry bright at its rising. On Saturday it vras, seen 
here almost all day. — N. Y. Postboy. 

1744, Jiote 11. — The earthquake at Boston, 
Sunday, 3d iust., was felt by many persons in 
New York and on Long Island, but nothing so 
violent as 'twas said to be there. — N. Y. Postboy. 

1744, July 2.— A Proclamation of "War against 
Erauee was published in New York. 

174-3, May G. — To be sold, the corner honse 
where Samuel Clowes now lives, in Jamaica, with 
several out-houses, a garden of an acre of gTouud, 
together with about ninety acres of very good land 
near adjoining ; being a place very convenii'ntly 
situated for any public business. — Postboy. 

1745, May, 2J).-^Twenty shillings and charges. 
Run away, April 30th, from Joseph Hawkshurst, 
Oystcrbay, a negro man Tom, aged twenty-sis, 
middle stature and pock-fretten. He had art old 
beaver hat, red duffils jacket, ozcnbrigs shirt and 
blue breeches. He is much given to drink. — Post- 
boy. 

174.5, Nov. 13.— At night tlie horse of the Eev. 
David Brainerd, the Indian Missionary, who was 
attending . Presbytery, at Newto^^^l, was stolen 
froJU him.— Journal. 

174G, March 5. — The .small ^o-s. is said to pre- 
vail in the country about Jamaica. 

174G, April 25. — In the act for raising the sum 
of c£13.000, for fm-thor fortityiug the colony of 
New Yorki and for cancelling the Bills of Credit, 
the Quota of Queens, was c£487,9,5 ; of Kings, 
.,£254,18 ; of Suffolk, ..£433,6,8, yearly for three 
years. — Ass. Jour-., 2 : 109. 

1746 June — Jona. La'WTcnce, of Queens Coun- 
ty, and James Panning, of Suffolk, have liberty to 
raise recruits for the war in Canada. In July 
Fanning had one hundred men mustered, of whom 
Hempstead sent seventy-eight, and Jamaica twen- 
ty-two, imder Capt. Wraxall. 

1746, Jiiiic 9. — Embargo ou shipping from New 
York. 

1746, Jnly 31. — A day of solemn Thanksgiving 
for the late victory by His M.ajcsty's arms,- under 
the conduct of the Duke of Cumberland over the 
rebels, near Cullodcn, in North Britain. — Post Hoy. 

1746, Aitg. 11.- — Five complete companies of 
the force raised in New York and on Long Island, 
for the expedition against the Canada border,- are 
now embarked for Albany ou theix way to the 
place of reudczvousf. 

174G, Oct. 22.— Richard Brown [Oysterbay ?}- 
tried for murder. Verdict, not guilty. '] Witnesses 
(for the King) JIary Frost, Sarah and Mary Til- 
lier, Dcrick Albertson and Benjamin Carijcnter ; 
(for the prisoner) Joseph Coles, Jacob Valentino, 
"Wright Frost, Thomas Kirby and Richard Lattin.] 



1746, Nov. 29.— The account of Adam Lawr- 
ence, Sheriff of Queens County, for receiving, 
lodging .and attending eight French prisoners, from 
tlune 3d to July 14th, was ^£22,19,3. — Ass. Jour., 
2 : 140. 

1747, Feb. 2:— On Thesday last, at Miisketo 
Cove, Dennis Lawrence, a young man of fair char- 
acter, an apprentice to Captain Walton of New 
York, and Thomas Brooks, a laborer, were both 
unhappily poisoned b}- taking a spoonful of rats- 
banc by mistake, for Hour of brimstone, to cure the 
itch.— iV. Y^Postboy. 

1747, Feb. ?.• — We have had a long scries of 
cold, freezing weather — rivers full of ice. Wood 
is scarce aud dear, as was never equalled before ; 
40.S. to 58S. per cord, and half the inhabitants in 
want. A good turkey brings 5.s ; (former price was 
3s. 6d.) a fat fowl. Is. 6d.; butter, 14(7. What 
must our poor suffer ! — N. Y. Postboy. 

1747, Oct 2G.— John Bowno and Jlatthcw 
Franklin offer for sale the whole estate of Benja- 
min Burling, deceased. A gi-ist mill with three 
pair of stones, and screen to clean the wheat, a 
bolting mill that goes by water, with conveniences 
to hoist meal and wheat with ease — for all which 
there is water enough, and for near so many more, 
all in good order. Also, a large boat suitable to 
tend the mills. Also, 58 acres of very good- land 
and meadow, with dwelling house and orchard 
thereon, and a house near the mill for the miller 
to live in, at Flushing town landing ; extraordi- 
nary convenient for a tradesman. - Also, horses, 
cattle, household goods, utensils for husbandry, a 
large quantity of English and salt hay. — Postboy. 

1747. — The Jamaica Lottery will be dra'mi on 
November 10th, in Queens County Hall, in the 
presence of three or more Justices of the peace, 
and such other persons as the adventurers may 
nominate. The managers, Jacob Ogden and 
Samuel Clowes give their trouble gratis. There 
are one thousand three himdred tickets, at 85. each, 
equal to c£520. From each prize 12i per cent. 
vrill be deducted for purchasing a bell for Grace 
Church.— iV. Y. Postboy. 

17-17, Noi: 16. — Derick BrhickcrhofT offers for 
sale, a very good plantation of two hundred aud 
forty acres, on the road from Flushing to Jamaica, 
three miles from Flushing town landing, and two 
miles from Jamaica. The house has two rooms on 
the floor, with a leauto and kitchen thereto an- 
nexed, a new barn, cedar shingled, wagon-house, 
sheep-house, a good' orchard of two hundred and 
fiftj' trees of divers sorts of fruits, pretty garden 
spot — all in stone fence. A spot of ground in the 
rear produces forty loads of hay. — Postboy. 

1747, Kor. 17. — The account of Lieutenant 
James Thorn, of Colonel Hicks' Regiment for 
Queens County, for forty-four days service of him- 
self and men, in the fort at Schenectady, was 
.=£113,19,6.— J.S5. Jour., 2 : 200. 



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1747, Nov. 17.— The bill of the Shtriff of '^''cBt- 

. chciitcr County for lod^riiig ami victualling some 

militia from Queens and Suffolk' Coiuity, in May 

and June, 1740, when on their way to Albany, 

was c£43,l4. — Ass. Jour,, 2 : 200. 

1747, Nov. 17. — The account of Adam Lawr- 
ence, late Sheriff of Queens County, for lodging 
and victualluig twenty-eight French prisoners, 
from September 2ith, 1740, to I'cbraary 6th, was 
=£122,14,6.— ^SS. Join:, 2 : 200. 

1748, Mai/ 16.— John Thome, at the TThite- 
Btonc, offers for sale a convenient situation for 
trade, vlicrc the Ferry is now kept, one hundred 
and thi-ec acres of land, a good orchard of six 
acres, two acres of interval laud cleared for mow- 
ing, dwolling-liDUse forty by twenty feet, with 
stone cellar, and a barn and bolting-house together. 
— Postboy. 

1748, June 10. — Timiti/ sliiTlhifjs rcirard. — Tvan 
away from William lingers, Oysterbaj-, an Irish 
servant lad, Henry McQueede, eleven years old 
and niucli frecklid ; had on a blue jacket, check 
shirt and leather breeches. — Postboi/. 

174S-0. — Nicholas ]?arrington>-Tvas schoolmas- 
ter at .Flower llill [ManlmssetJ ; but in 17;j7 lie 
was in New A'ork where he taught ycmth to write 
the usual hands, arithmetic in both kinds, with the 
extraction of the roots, as, also, ua\ngation and 
merchants' accounts, after the Italian manner. He 
also performed wriaugs for gentlemen. — N. Y. 
Mcrcwii. 

1749, Jan, 2G.-^SoiriC time ago died in Hemp- 
stead, Colonel Thomas Hicks, aged ninety years, 
who left behind him, of his own offspring, above 
three huiulred children, grand children, great-grand 
children and great-grcat-grand children. Also, at 
Newtown, Jacob Blackwell, aged fifiy-two years. 
He was six feet two inches high and weighed, 
three years beftn-e his death, four hundred and 
thirty-nine pounds, and by all apiiearance in- 
creased much more before he died. How nnich is 
not known, because, though often solicited, he 
would not consent to be weighed a second time. — 
N. Y. Postboi/. 

1749, Feb. 25. — xVbout twelve o'clock last night, 
was heard at Jamaica, two or three terrible and 
most surprising claps of thunder, which seemed to 
shake the earth and territied some women so much 
that they fainted away. The lightning fired the 
barn of Jonah Kliodes, which was soon consumed to 
ashes, and with it certain (quantities of English hay, 
wheat, rye, flax, six >hoats, twenty-six ewes, and 
lambs, a fine marc and many utensils of husbandry. 
Loss c£80. Three barns built on the same spot 
liavc beea burned within a few years, one by acci- 
dent and two by lightning. — N. Y. Postboy. 

1749, March S. — The common topics of dis- 
course at Jamaica, since the coming of Mr. John 
IJonnin, are entirely changed. Instead of the 
common chat nothing is scarce mentioned now but 



the most entertaining p.arts of Europe, which are 
represented so vividly in Mr. Bunnin's curious 
Prospects. He proj)Osed to tiirry there but one 
week, but his lectures and views have been so eat 
isfactory tliat crowded concourses of people arc 
daily spectators. He tarries another week but de- 
signs for Flushing on S;in>rday next, and Hemp- 
stead on Satiu-day after. — JV. Y. Postboy. 

1749, June 19.— Next Thursday will be a pub- 
lic Thanksgiving in this colony for tho latc-glori- 
ous peace. — Postboy. 

1719, July 3, — Pea.<<vii(ihk rrirards. — Uun away 
from William and lienjamin Ilawkshurst, Oyster- 
bay, a negro man, Tom, a middle size yellow fel- 
low, pretty well clothed, and took a horse. — Post- 
boy. 

1749, 14(/(/. 21. — Fitllina, dyeing, shearing and 
pressing of homespun cloth, taking spots and stains 
out of broad cloth, druggets, silks, etc., is done at 
Whitehead's mill, (so called) at Jamaica, by an 
cxecllcjit worknuiu lately from Europe. Cloth 
may be left at Derrick Remseu's, Flatlands ; Wil- 
liam Furman's, Newtown, and Kichard Titus's, 
north side of the great Hempstead I'laius. — N. Y. 
Postboy. 

1749, Sept. 2'i. — .C:5 Tlnnird and charfies. — Ran 
awaj^ from .John Belts, Jamaica, a mulatto fellow, 
Isaac, aged 24, had on a very good head ot hair, 
felt hat, brown coat, linen vest and breeches, bl«c 
yam stockings and good shoes. — Postboy. 

1749, Dec. 4. — The best sort of Newtown pip- 
pins to be sold cheap, by the ton or barrel, in the 
best order for shipping. Enquire of the printer 
hereof — X. Y. Postboy. 

1750, Jinic 4. — On Friday last there was a 
great horse race on Hempstead Plains, which en- 
gaged the attention of so many of the city of New 
York that upwards of sorenty chairs and chaises 
were carried over Brooklyn i'vrry the day before, 
besides a far greater number of horses. 'J'he num- 
ber of horses on the plain-^, it ■>vas thought, far ex- 
ceeded one thousand. ^A'^. Y, Postboy. 

1750, Scj)t. 3. — On Monday last, came on the 
election of members of Assembly for Queens Coun- 
ty. .I'poii the close of the poll the vote stood, for 
!Mr. Jones, (late speaker) 452 ; Thomas Cornell, 
477 ; Judge Hicks, 293 ; David Seaman, 2SS. — 
Postboy. 

1750, Sept. 2S. — The account of John Van 
Wyck, Sheriff of Quei-ns County for receiving, lodg- 
ing and victualling sixty-three French and Spanish 
l)risoners of war, from June Hth, 174^, to July 
10th; and f>r transporting them from Flu.^hiug to 
New York, July 11th, was ci'94,-1.— .(Is5. Journal, 
2 : 300. 

1750, T>ce. 10. — On Tuesday last were brouglit 
to New York market, fom- quarters of a calf, eight 
months old, which weighed four hundred and sev- 
enteen pounds neat. .Skiu and tallow, one liun- 



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dred aiid two pounds neat. ItWas raised by Ben- 
jamin Water.-?, of Neivtbwn.— JV.- Y. Cfazctte. 

. 1'751, Blay 13.— ^Ahy person designs, may be 
supplied with vaseS, nms, tibwer-pots, etc., to adorn 
gardens sikI tops of bouses ; or any other onia- 
ment made of elaj-, by Edmoud Annely, at Wbite- 
stonciie having set up the potter's -bnsiness by 
•KcaDS of- a' German fiimily that he bought, who are 
supposed by their work to be the most ingenious 
that ever arrived in America. He has clay capa- 
ble of making eight difi'erent sorts of ware. 

1752, i^e&. lo. — '< Yesterday came on our elec- 
tion, at Jamaica, for Representatives, when, not- 
withstanding the utmost efforts of the Court party 
in meetings and entertainments in all corners of 
Queens County, assisted by Tom Plain, Zachariah 
and the rest of the hireling tribe, our two late 
members, Jones and Cornell, carried the election 
by a very great majorit}', and thus I am persuaded 
it will be, should we have an election cverj'- month 
in the year, for we are determined not to be wor- 
ried out, and we know our interest too well to be 
deceived either by paper or parchment." — Post- 
hoy. 

17.j2, Nov. 20. — Last Thursday morning Na- 
thaniel Lloj'd, a young gentleman of Long Island, 
with two other young men from Boston, going m a 
i boat to his brother's, at Long Island, overset and 
all were drowned. 

1752, Dee. 1S,-^^A11 persons in Oysterbay hav- 
ing a right in Hempstead Plains will please make 
it appear unto John Dorlon, .John Birdsall, John 
Foster, Jacob Smith, Esq., Itichard Ellison, Jr., 
arid John Williams, who are a conimittee to lay it 
owt.-^Posthoy. 

1753, Ma^"7.— On Thursday last as Samuel 
Doughty, of Flushing, was riding on horseback 
near "Westchester, his horse casually stumViled and 
bniised him so dan^-erousl}- by falling ou him that 
his Ufe was then despaired of. 

'1753, May 30. — The General Assembly met at 
tlic Court House, in Jamaica, as being free from 
small pox, which then prevailed in New York, but 
finding it an inconvenient place tn sit in, they ad- 
journed to Benjamin Hiucliman's. The Governor 
and Council sat at the Widow Stillwdl's and 
Thomas Brainc's [now Dr. Sheltou's]. 

1753, June 23. — Sundry people of Queens 
County complain of the extravagant demands of 
the Excise officers and of their common custom of 
selling the excise to many persons unable and unfit 
to keep public houses of eutertaiiuoient.-'— .dss. 
Jour, 2 : 345. 

1753, July 2. — Was paid Benjamin Iliflchman 
for the use of his house, for providing a table for 
the Assembly, and hire of horses for the messen- 
gers from Jamaica to New York, j£10.4. — Jour., 
2 : 349. 



175?. — The people of Hempstead complain that 
persons rake up and destroy their clams for the 
sake of the shells to make merchandize of.* — i?e- 
cords E., ]). 21S, 219. 

1754, Jan. 27. — Last Monday ' morning, the 
weather being uncommonly pleasant and warm, 
many people were induced to go into Jamaica Bay 
for Oysters, clams, etc. ; but about noon such a se- 
vere gale of wind arose from the nortlnvest with a 
sudden change from warm to cold as was scarce 
ever known here, when all the small craft put off 
to gain the shore in the best mamier they could. 
A number of canoes and petty augers came on 
shore at a point of meadow south of Jamaica, and, 
with the utmost diffieidty, the people belonging to 
them traveled up to a house two Eiiles from the 
place of landing. • All got safe to the house though 
much bcnximbed and several speechless, except 
Daniel Smith, a young man, who perished on the 
meadows, half a mile from the house. His com- 
panions r.ot being able to help him any further, 
having dragged him a mUe after he lost the use of 
his feet. The same day the crews of two canoes, 
in Jamaica Bay, consisting of eight people, from 
Newtown, not returning at night were sought for 
next day, but the ice being so thick it was imprac- 
ticable to go far in quest of them until Friday, 
when one canoe was found di'iven ou an island of 
sedge in which were found the bodies of Samuel 
Leveridge, Amos Koberts, William Salier and 
Thomas ]Morrel, alias Salier — all frozen to death ; 
the steersman sitting in an erect posture at the 
helm. The three former M'ere married men leaving 
distressed families behind them. To-day mother 
canoe was seen but could not be come at by reason 
of the ice, in which, it is supposed, Jire the other 
four missing persons — one white '■man scr\-ant 
and three valuable negroes. ' Several people h.ave 
also been miserably frozen at Hempstead South, 
who were out the same aight but ■h'c can't learu 
that any have died though some are thought to be 
in great danger.-^ JV. Y. Mercury. 

1754, Fcl}. 4. — Last week a small whale, twenty . 
feet long, was towed up to New York by a sand 
boat from Rockaway, where it was found floating 
near the shore by some clammers. This, and one 
much larger, was killed by some whalers off Sandy 
Hook a fortnight ago but were driven to sea by 
hard weather. A year ago two whales were 
struck south of the Highlands. — N. Y. Mercury. 

'17.34, March 18. — Last week was broVight to 
New York and killed, two young steers of but five 
■years old, raised and fatted by Itichard Thorne of 
Hempstead bounds. Tlicy were extremely fat, 
and, with an allowance for their age, one was sup- 
posed to equal, if not exceed, the large ox killed 
in Philadelphia ; the four quarters of it weighing 
with the tallow, 1,224 lbs. — Postboy. 

1754, May 7. — At Flushing, and Several other 
» IV-iLaps the shells were burnt for lime. 



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places on Lung l.^land, a very hard ^'llc)\V(•r of hail 
fell which did iucrrdiijle damage, ^[any fields of 
rye wtrc ruiued and au abundance of glasa windows 
broke. The hail stones were ae large as pigcoD^' 
egg.s. — JV. y. Gazette. 

1754. — On the evening of ihc 4th September, a 
negro man, Tom, middle .stature, ])Ofk-l)roken, he- 
longing to Benjamin IIa^vk^*hur.<t, Cold Spring, was 
discovered canyiug away from his master's mills, 
a bag of Indian meal to sell it. AVheupou he left. 
It i^ supposed he has been instrnmontal to wrong 
his master to a considerable value. Whoever takes 
him up miy depend on being well rewarded. lie 
was brouglit up in the city and can work at the 
baking business. — Postboy. 

1755. — Samuel Rodman had a ferry from Pel- 
ham to Hempstead llarbor and to Mattagarision's 
bay. — Gaz. of N. Y. 

1755, Fcl). 11. — For putting the colony in ,a 
state of defence, the quota of (^>ueens was o£500 ; 
of Kings, .€240 ; of Suffolk, ^^l.iO.—Ass. Jour., 
2 : 435. 

1755, Feb. 20. — Josiali ^[artin, of ITempstead 
township, [Hyde Park ?] complained to the Gover- 
nor that Justice Joseph Kissam had entertained a 
complaint made by IJcnjamin Doughty, that Qua- 
niina, a negro slnrve of said Martin, had some time 
last spring broken in Ricliard Coniell's smoke- 
house [Success ?J and stolen some of his gammons. 
Tho negro was, however, acquitted, but brought 
up a second time on a charge of receiving two gam- 
mons from another negro who had received two 
more and sold them. One Moore, it was said, had 
bought some also, but he denied it under oath. 
Quamina h.aving threatened the wtness who swore 
against liim, Kissam ordered twenty-fi\e lashes to be 
inilicted on his bare back. AVilliam Algeo's store, 
having been robbed of sundry goods, linens, sitgar 
and mm, ho su.-»p<'cted some idle disorderly persons 
there and got out a searcli ^> aiTant, biit found no- 
thing. Quamina, being an old convicted thief, waa 
among the su.spectcd, and his masters house. ('u 
his absence) searched. Quamina, on being again 
seized and threatened, attempted suicide. Kissam 
presented to the Governor several numerously 
signed certificates, embracing most of flu; liouse- 
holders of what is now North Hempstead. The 
complaint was probably dismissed. — Col. Mss., 
80 : 23, 37. 

1755, June 19. — This has been the longest sea- 
son of dry weather ever kijown throughout the 
English part of this continent. The crop of wheat 
and rye is well nigh jicrished and cannot exceed 
half a crop. There is not flax enough to produce 
the seed sown, llaj', oats Indian corn, and all 
other fruits of the earth have the .same appearance, 
and if it continues dry a few days longer all will 
have gone. It is said several congregations in this 
and the neighboring govenimcnts have set aside 
days of fasting and prayer that Heaven may avert 
the impending danger. — N. Y. Gazette. 



1755, Aiif). 18. — 'William Keese, boatman, of 
Flushing, offers to pu])ply persona in New York 
with live stock. — X. Y. Mercury. 

niJi, Sept. 21. — This day one thousand and fif- 
teen sheej), collect-'d in three daj-s )h Queens 
County, were deliver(.d at New York fenyU> b« 
sent to Albany by water, which were cheerfully 
given for the use of the army, now at or near Crown 
Point. While their husbands, at Great Neck, were 
employed in getting sheep, the good mothers in 
that neighborhood, in a few hom's, collected nearly 
seventy good large cheeses and sent, them to New 
York to be forwarded with the sheep to tlic army. 
The people of Kings Countj' projjose to raise mon- 
ey to defray the e.vpenses of transporting these 
sheep and cheese to Albany.* — 2s. Y. Mercury. 

1755, Oct. 10. — General William Johnson writes 
to ^Ics.^rs. Jones and Cornell, Eepresentatives of 
Queens County : " A few days ago I received a 
letter from Schuyler and Depeyster, at Albany, 
acqmunting nu- that you ]iiid.s"»ut .to them sixty- 
nine cheeses and two hundred sheep, being part gf 
one thousand raised in Queens County as a pres- 
ent to this anny, and which thej- have forwarded 
to me. This letter was read at a council of war, 
consisting of all the field officers in this camp. The 
most equitable division hath been made of this gen- 
erous and public sjiiritcd present, which we could 
follow. Tliough cattle and a few sheep had been 
sent iiy some of the Provinces to their troops, yet 
your sheep were very seasijnable and highly b<'ne- 
ficial to the i\ni\y in general. Your cheeses were 
highly acceptable and reviving, for unh'ss among 
some of the officers it was food scarcely known 
among us. Tiiis generous humanity of (Queens 
County is unanimously and gratefully applauded 
by all here. We pray that your benevolence may 
be' returned to you by the Great Shejdierd of hu- 
man kind a hundred fold; and may those a:uiablc 
housewives, to whose skill we owe the refreshing 
cheeses long continue to shine in their \iset'ul and 
endearing stations. I beg, gentlemen, that yon 
will acee])t of and convey to your generous county 
my grateful and respectful salutations for their sea- 
sonable beneficence to the amiy under my com- 
mi\nd." 

1755, Kor.2i. — On Tuesday morning last, at 
four o'clock, au earthquake of three minutoe was 
sensibly felt by the inhabitants of Oysierbay, 
Newtown, Jamaica and Flushing. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1755, Dec. 15. — From .Tamaica we hear ad- 
vice of the death of Kcv. Tiionias Colgan, Rector 
of the church, a gentleman much esteemed by his 
acquaintance. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1755, Dee. 29. — James AVilson, dyer, NCw York, 
offers fi)r sale two good houses in. a ]>leasant, heal- 
thy situation, in the town spot of Flushing, oppo- 
site the English church, with garden barn, stable, 

*jC57.C,7 were paiJ for the freight of these sliecp to Al- 
bany. 



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ovcliarcl and tliirteeu acVcs of lauTl.. Eiif|uirc of 
Nathaniel Tom, living nigh.— X 1'. 2Icicunj. 

1756, Jan. 26. — Thomas Thome, Moi?quito 
Oovc, offers for sale, a dwelliug, st^bl'? and orchard, 
with ten acres of laud and swamji, and a J3arcel of 
fine locust trees, opposite Captain Walton's. There 
is a spring before the door. It is convenient for a 
tavern keeaer or tradesman. — N. Y. Mcrcurij. 

ndC,J/fn. 2G. — David Algeo offers for sale his 
plantation of over two hundred acres, cleared and 
all iu good fence, four miles from Hempstead, ou 
the north side of the plaius and about two miles ou 
said plain.' It has a fine young bearing orchard of 
above two hundred apple trees, a house with fun- 
rooms and fire-places on a floor, smoke-house, 
kitchen and cellar under the whole, store-house and 
chaise-house, good mowing ground, and a barn fif- 
ty-six by forty-three feet.— iN''. Y. Mercury. 

1756, Fch. 16.— Mrs. Frances "Willctt offers for 
sale her farm of one hundred and eighty acres, nortli 
side of the great plains, adjoining Colonel Josiah 
Martin's to the eastward, and Adam Lawrence to 
the westward. It has a good dwelling-house, 
kitcheii and dairy, two flower and a kitchen gar- 
dens, two shingled barns, smoke-house, corn crib 
and hovel for cattle. 

The above said Mrs. "Willctt has for sale at her 
store, Wall street, New York, good St. Kitts rum, 
by the hogshead, at the lowest market price. — 
I'ostbo'j. 

175C. — Euu away from his bail, Benjamin 
Ilawkshurst, at 05'sterbay, March 16th, John Col- 
lins, middle size, tawny, of Indian breed, an inden- 
tured servant as sccuritj* for a .t'lO debf . He was 
enlisted in Capt. Higgius' company of battoe men, 
but discharged, and now secretes himself. 20s. 
reward if taken in New Ytirk, and t±'3 if taken as 
far as Albany. — Postboij. 

11b'3, Jttnc 3. — Sundry inhabitants of Oyster- 
bay,' of the Church of England, have by voluntary 
contributions and charitable assistance of others, 
erected a church there, but being few they are un- 
able to finish it, and pi'ay the Assembly to be al- 
lowed to raise t:£.50O by Lottery to complete it and 
buy a bell. — Ass. Jour., 2 : 338. 

1753, June 4. — Gov. Clinton resided during the 
summer at Flushing on account of the small pox 
being in the city. 

1753, June 18. — Edmond Aunely offers for sale 
his place, at Whitestonc. It has a stone house, 
wharf, garden, gravelled walks, asparagus-beds, 
flowering shrubs, etc. — Vosthorj. 

1754, Aug 12. — John Woolley petitions for the 
j)ri\-ilege, across the Sound to AVestchester, of "a 
ferry from the head of Hempstead Harbor to Jf ata- 
garisous Bay. 

1756, April 5. — A steer, of the age of two 
years, eight months and a half, bred by Colonel 
Benjamin Trcadwell, of Great Neck, was killed 



three weeks ago, in this city, whose four quarters 
weighed eight hundred and Mij pounds, and the 
fat, exchisive of the kidneys, one hundred and 
twenty -three pounds. — N. Y. Mcrcunj. 

1756, May 1. — A Proclamation for a fast on ac- 
count of earthquakes throughout the colonies. — 
CoL Mss., Vol. 82. 

1756, May 17. — Captaiu Hugh Wcntworth sells 
linseed oil at 5s. a gallon by the cask, at his Mills, 
Flushing. 

11^:6. — Friday, May 21, is to bo religiously ob- 
served in this Province as a day=of public Fast 
and Humiliation. — N. Y. Guzette. 

1756, 3Iay 24. — In the hard gust we had yes- 
terday sennit, a boat, with three negroes, who had 
been fishing in Flushing Bay, and n<?ar the Two 
Brothers, overset, and two negroes were drowned ; 
one the property of BamarduS Eyder, the- other of 
Bcnja-min Fowler. The third saved his life by 
holdhig to the mast till he was taken off by a boat 
that v.-cnt to him. — N. Y. Mercury.' ■ 

1756, May 34. — On Satm-day last, Captain 
AA'illiams, of Oysterbay, came to New York, on 
bis way to the North, with a company of stout 
men who will be reviewed this day by our Gover- 
nor. — iV. Y. Mercury. 

1756, June 28. — Ran away from Henry Allen 
Great Neck, Licum, a mulatto fellow, walks stoop- 
ing, hr s a down look,' blaclr curled hair, well set ; 
had a fell-" hat, brown tow shirt and trowsers, 
brown jacket with blue worsted lining, one shirt of 
Ii-ish linen, broad cloth breeches. Forty shillings 
and charges will be paid to any one who shall se- 
cure him in His Mnjesty's jails. — Postboy. 

1756, — =£21 Reward.— Deserted, June 28th, 
from Captain Gilbert Potter's company, Chester 
Wanser, aged thkty-one, of a surly countenance, 
round shouldered, heavy gait ; John Bnmbus, an 
Indian fellow, aged twenty -seven ; and Samuel 
Lang, a negro, aged twenty-fom- — all of (_)yster- 
\)Ay. Also, Charles Puewage'n, an Indian, of 
Brookha^•en. They all had on New York regi- 
mentals and carried off four of the King's arms 
with bayonets and ca'rtouCh boxes,^ — Postboy. 

1756, July 1. — The Justices of Kingus, Queens 
and Suffolk Counties are empowered to bind out 
the neutral French from Nova Scotia, who are dis- 
tributed in said counties. — Ass. Jour., 2 : 494. 

1756. — " Jamaica, July 7tb. ' About six o'clock 
last Sunday afternoon, wo- had the most violent 
hurricane that, perhaps, was ever seen in this 
part of North America. It' began near Hell-gate 
on the north side, and run in a straight com'se 
across the Island to the south, being about fifteen 
miles iu length, and not exceeding eighty rods iu 
breadth, making inoredible havoc, destroying al- 
most every thing in its way. The largest oak and 
hickory trees were not able to withstand its vio- 
lence, but were surprisingly torn up by the roots 



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split into iiniumcraljlc piec«8 and many larjrc Hmbs 
of gcvoral hundrcil wpiglit, carried into ojxni fiuldsi 
near lialf a inileV di.-itaucf f'ro^i tlie wxods. .Sev- 
eral houses are damaged, six bams destroyed, up- 
wards of eight hundred beaiing apple trees blown 
down, near eighty acres of excellent timber (a 
scarce article, of lat<;, aoioug us) entirely ruined, 
and several lengths of fence blown down and 
broken. A grind stone, near Captain Laiigdon's 
in Newtown, of upwards of one hundred and fifty 
pounds weight, was removed by the force of the 
wind, with the frapie it was fiyed on, twelve or 
fifteen feet, and tlivivnTi inliO liis garden. An iron 
chimney-back was also removed several feet from 
the place it stood on. Captain Laiigdon's barn 
was shattered into innnmerabh' ])ieccs. !Many 
large timbers and boards were carried to an incredi- 
ble distance. Tlie iron hinges of the doors, weigh- 
ing several pounds, were found a quarter of a mile 
from the place where the bivru ■.had stood. Largt; 
showers of limbs of trees, shingles, leaves, etc., fell 
in some places near a mile from the course of the 
wind, 'i'wo apple trees were removed whole, with 
a great quantity of earth sticking to their roots, 
upwards of thirty rods. The utmost extent of the 
hurricane's duration did not exceed half a minute. 
Captain Betts, at Jamaica, is thouglit to be the 
greatest sufferer, having lost near two hundred 
choice apple trees, one barn entirely gone and 
another nuieh damaged, near fifteen acres of good 
timber land laid waste, besides fences, etc., com- 
puted at /C300. The whole damage, at a moderate 
computation, amounts to between it:i,OUU and 
c£3,000. 

Doidjtless some persons will be surprised, and 
others ridicide this relation, esjiecially the .iccount 
of the grind stone and chimney-back ; but it is to be 
hoped such will suspend their judgnniits until they 
arc certified of tlii^ truth thereof, Ijv persons of the 
greatest veracity who >vci;e eye-witnesses to the 
above facts, and many more as surprising, but too 
tedious to be here enumerated." — Cor. of JY. Y. 
Mcrcurij. 

175G, Jnly 19.— .•£3 Keward and charges.-^ 
Deserted from Captain Thomas Williams' conipa- 
ny, in the service of the I'rovinee of New York, an 
Indian man, lleuben, a down-looking fellow, short 
hair, thick set, born in Queens County, lie had 
on New York regimentals and cjirried.off his fire- 
lock.— Pos/toy. 

175G. — .£.5 Reward and charges, if secured in 
any jail. — Deserted from Captain Thomas Wil- 
liams' company, July lOtli, Solomon Kainer, tall 
and dfwu-lookt. lie took his tlnlock No. 18, and 
branded N, i'. in the bn'cch, and had on his regi- 
mentals ; llarper AVanscr, Jr., middling tall and 
down look ; also, Thomas Stringham, tall, well .■'et, 
goes stooping and is round shouldered. 

IT-OQ, Aug. IG. — .£3 Reward and charges. — 
Run away from AV. Mott, (ireat Neck, a negro 
man slave, Joe, a well set likely fellow, full-faced 
and black. Born iicrc and speaks good I'.nglish, 



lie bad on a gray liomespun coat with pewter bu^- 
tons, while linen Jacket, and homespun linen shirtt 
a epccklcd liw n handkercliief around his neck, felt 
hat, tow trowsers, oldpiucjis with buckles. Com- 
manded of vessels are forbid carryuig him otV. — 
Postboy. 

■175G, Sept. 20.— The estate of Thomas Moon, 
iu the town-spot of Flushing is offered for sale by 
his widow, Elizabeth, a good large dwelling-houBC, 
seven acres of land, orchard, farming utensils and 
cattle, also shop goods. — N. Y. Mercury. 

175G, Oct. 2.J.— Cajitain "Wentworth, of I'ltlsli- I 
ing, being at ,St. Thomas, mustered as many New | 
Yorkers as he could find (twenty-four hands in all) 
and in his new vessel, indifferently mounted with 
great gims, put to sea iu jiursuit (jf a French Pri- 
vateer cniising off the harhor and chasing New 
Y'ork vessels. Rut the privateer thought fit to dis- 
apjiear. — Pn.stboy. 

17'jG, Xor. 1. — To be sold, the jdeas^nt and 
noted place in the town sjmt qf. Jamaica, called 
Sjiriiif/ Giirdrii, being in sight of (lie (County 
House, Duleli, English and Presbyterian churches, 
and retired from all. It coutaiiis twelve acres 
clear land, twelve of woodland, enough to supply 
two fires, two orchards, a cider inill, green-house, 
lowland that can be made to ruow twenty loads. of 
Eugli.sh hay. Apply to John Ilutchings or Rob- 
ert Howell,* on the premise;. — N, Y. Mercury. 

il.'iCy, Xor. 1.5. — The name or abode of the per- 
son who gave infurmation of the landing, clandes- 
tinely, of some Duteh jijoods near Lloyd's Neck, 
being unknown to the Collector of Jlis Majisty's 
customs, he is desired to come and receive his 
share, or send directions how it may be disposed 
oL-TT^Postboy. 

17-56, Nov. 19. — The sum of ^£.j,l;j was j)aid 
Nchemiah Carpenter, for building a watch-house 
near the Beacon, at Rockaway, and .£1G were paid 
Thomas Cornell, Esq., for two months' service of 
two proper persons to attend and watch the Beacon 
and alarm gun. — Ass. Jour., 2, 517, 5 IS. 

1756, Kov. I9.r-Thc following bills were paid 
by order of file (leneral Assembly, for sujiiiorting 
the neutral French brought here in Jlay last and 
sent to the ^Magistrates of (^>ueens County : 
Christopher Robert, Flushing, nine men, £ 4, 2, 1 
.Samuel Fish Jr., Newtown, ten " 21, 7, 
.Tose])li Kissam, llemjistcad, eight " 10, 5, 7 
Hani'LTownsend,*(>ysterbay,ninc " 10,13, 
James Denton, Jamaica, ten " 12,14,11 

1757, Jan. 10. — To be P(dd a house ami lot in 
tenure and occupation of Dr. Jacob Ogdcn, oppo- 

*Dicd Nov. 177G. 

tile sent an iiisultitip: litter to tip /•.sM.\iilily, on llio cini- 
diut i.f till- llim.sc ill iispirt In tlie iiiaiiiteuinicr (if tlie neu- 
tral riiiuli. lie wjis lin'U}rlit iHtViie tic lIoii.se by tli" 
Seivre!Uit-at-.\nns, and on his snluniii;Uon, was roprinianUed 
and tlieu di.sniissud. — Jour., 'i : 554. 



IN OLDEN TIMES, 



29 



site the PresLytcrian moetiug-lioiisc, Jamaica. It 
contains two and a half acres, good barn, garden 
and orchard — all in good fence. Apply to ilrs. 
Rebecca Semple, at her house, next to Itichard 11. 
Smith's, sehnolmaster. New York. Said Scrapie 
has impoi-tcd from Bristol the best Scotch smvff, to 
be sold cheap for ready money or short credit. All 
persons indebted for snuff above a fcy.elve month 
are requested to pay forthwith, &■". they would pre-, 
vent trouble. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1757, Jan. 27. — A inimber of the King's soldiers, 
of the Twenty-second Keginient, was sent to Ja- 
maica to be billeted there. Nehemiah Denton and 
Thomas Hinchmau were appointed by the town to 
supply them with \\-ood and other necessaries that 
the to\\-n is obliged to, theyfee(fj;i»g an account of 
their disbursements. — Town Hecorils. 

1757, Feb. 2S. — For sale, the plantation of 
Abraham "Willett, of Flushing, deceased, contain- 
ing one hundred «nd sixty acres of lti.nd and mea- 
dow, well watered by divers living springs. It 
]>».'; 'ft -tw^-story dwelling, ■with five fire-places, a 
new barn, and considiirable orcharding. Apjily to 
Abraham and Charles "Willett, Executors. — N. Y. 
Mcreunj. 

1757, Mm'ch"/. — Governor Hardy, in a Procla- 
mation dated <it Flatbusli, orders all deserters from 
the forc-es in the pay of the Province, or those on 
furlougli . on Long Island, to repair to Newtown. 
The deserters will not be proceeded against as such 
if the}- return to duty. — Postboy. 

rM'fl7, Ilarcli 9.— To the French and Indian 
war. Queens County sends thirty-eight men ; Suf- 
.folk, thirty-eight ; Kings, eight. 

1757, April 11. — Between seven and eight 
o'clock, on Fi-iday night last, the boat of John 
Wilson, of Flushing, Ij'ing in New York harbor 
was robbed of cash to the amount of £15. — Mer- 
cury. 

1757, May IG.— On Friday last, Richard Hal- 
let, Jr., of the town of Newtown, was killed in fall- 
ing a tree in the woods. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1757, May IG. — To be let, the farm, house, ice, 
at Whitestone, now in possession of Daniel ^Vaters, 
where the ferry to Frog's Point is carried on. It 
has a good bearing orchard of one hundred and fif- 
ty trees, thirty acres swamp and sixty of meadow, 
and seventy-si.^ of pasture land. Apply to John 
or Edward Nicoll, New York; Joseph Wilmot, 
Jamaica, or John Cornell, near the premises. — 
Postboy. 

1757. May 25. — Gov. Hardy notifies boatmen 
and marketmeu from the country bringing to New 
York provisions or other necessaries for tlie King's 
ships, that they shall not be impressed. — Postboy. 

1757. — Baecs at Jamaica, Monday, June ;6tli. 
The New York Purse by four j-ear olds, subject 
to articles to be seen at time of entry at John 
Com'is'. Next dav, the stakes to be run for bv 



the same horses, except the winner and those dis- . 
tanced.— A^. 1'. Mercury. 

Viol, June 13. — The New York subscription 
plate, rnn for at Jamaica, was won by Lewis J\Ior- 
ris, Jr.'s,.horse,. American Childers. — JV. Y. Mer- 
cury. 

1151, June 27. — The embargo at New York is 
taken off all outward bound vessels. 

1757. — Two Pistoles reward, besides what the 
law allows. Jamaica, July 6th, deserted this day, 
about one o'clock in the morning, from Joseph 
Howard's, tavern keeper, at the half-'ivay house, 
betwixt Jamaica and the Fcn-y, John Jones, 
born in Ireland, aged twenty-five, hair and com- 
plexion brown, -of a thick and crooked built and 
had on a dark grey jacket and trowsers, and 
dresses like a sailor ; and John Sighmont Fisher, 
born in the Dutch countries, speaks bad English, 
but high and low Dutch he speaks extremely well. 
He is of fair complexion, fair short hair, had on a 
brown coat and red jacket without sleeves. Thej 
carried away the landlord's great coat, and white 
cloth coat he used to wear in the church, his gun 
and other things not yet missed. — Postboy. 

1757. — "Wednesday, July 13th, is appointed, by 
Proclamation of the Governor, to be observed 
throughout this Province, as a day of solemn pub- 
lic Prayer, Fasting and Humiliation, to implore 
the Divine blessing on His Majesty's arras, by sea 
and land, and especially for the security of these 
Colonies. 

1757, Any. S. — Samuel Bcrdeu, en account of 
his advanced age, is. leaving off trade, and offers to 
let a merchant shop in the town of Flushing, con- 
veni(;nth' situated for trade. It has a large con- 
venient lodging-room and a good pump well sup- 
plied with water, near the door, — N. Y. Mercury. 

1757, Aug. 13. — Of the "Qieens -County militia, 
six hundred are ordered to xVlbany, and the Suf- 
folk militia are to^mai-chrinto Queens County. 

1757, Aug 14. — Colonel Hicks writes to the 
Governor that the militia of Queens County are 
poorly armed, and as there is danger of an invasion 
by the French, he requests £130, which is in the 
treasury of tlie county from Quaker fines, to buy 
arms with. 

1757, Aug. 15. — ^David Jones, of Fort Neck, 
writes to the Hon. A. Kennedy : " It has be(m 
represented to mo that there has been of late ob- 
served too great an intimacy between the negro 
-slavOiS and the people called neutral French. This 
it is apprehended tends to stir up the negroes to in- 
surrection, when such numbers of oin- best men 
are gone from us. His Majesty's Council will 
doubtless think it expedient to give immediate or- 
der to ece the laws against slaves duly executed ; 
and that all officers, civil and military, have a 
.watchful eye over the neutral French." 

1757, Sept. 2. — On the receipt of the news of 



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the siirniiilcrol Fort AVilliam Henry to tlio Frfiu-li, 
six liuiidrcd men were ordered to march I'riiiii 
Queens County toward Alliany. Tliey ■mutinied 
•\vben uenr Albany and left the army. 

17o7. — "Will be nin for AVcdnosday, Nov. 23, 
the New York subiJcription I'nr^e, by any horse 
carryiug ten stone, the best of tliree heats, each 
lieat twice round Jamaica Pond. Horses to be en- 
tered with Mr. J(din Combs, paying 5^2 the day 
before the race, or at the post S4. — I'osthui/. 

1758, Fib. 20. — SMciij — Mr. L»aac Isaac."!, Ja- 
maica, oflcrs ten shillings reward for a large silver 
spoon marked " I. I. I'l" If offered to a silver- 
smiili, or other, they are desired to stoji it and se- 
cure the thief — N. Y. Jlcrcin'y. • 

1758, Fch. 27.— Last Tuesday night three lads, 
eight or ten years old, were playing beside a pond, 
at Newtown, near tlic house of Kdward Titus (one 
of whom w^iis bis only son,) who being missed in 
the evening, were sought for, and at twelve at 
uight were found drowned, one of their hats lying 
on the ice, and the. ice broken iieju- it. — X. Y. Mir- 
citri/. 

1758. — This is to give notice that there is to be 
sold by way of vendue, March 101 h, at ten o'clock, 
on tlic premises, the farm tliat formerly belonged 
to Samuel Sands, at the bottom of Cow Neck, now 
in j)osscss?on of Samuel Smith. It has 217 acres 
of upland, meadow and marsh, ten acres of English 
mowing ground, twenty of salt uieadow, a good 
house, orchard, and baru twenty -six by twenty- 
eight feet. — rustboi/. 

1758, March 21. — The Assembly adjourn so 
that the uiembcrs may return home to expedite 
and forward the levies in their respective couutics. 
— Jour., 2 : 555. 

1758. — To be sold at public vendue, ilouday, 
March 27, the neat, commodious and improved 
farm of Elbert Adriance, with a good house and 
barn, at Fresh Jleadows, two miles from Jamaica, 
ou the upper road to Flushing. It has one hun- 
dred and tifty acres, part timber laud. — Posiboij. 

1758, Blfirch 28. — For the ensuing campaign 
the quota of (Jyeens Coimty is two hundred and 
ninety men ; Suffallc, two -hundred and eighty- 
nine; and Kings, sixty-three. — A'. Y. Jlcrcitr;/. 

1758. ^ro be sold at public vendue, Wednes- 
day, April 5th, at the dwelling-house of Daniel 
Lawrence, deceased, household furniture, horses, 
cattle and a parcel of young negroes ; also, a dwel- 
ling-house aud lot, on Flushing creek, with a good 
store-house and dock. 

1758, A}tyil 18. — List of the officers of the three 
companies of iiinel)--rivc recruits in Queens County, 
iu the pay of the I'roviuce : 

1st. Captain, Thomas "Williams ; First Lieuten- 
ant, Daniel Wright ; Second Lieutenant, ^Villiam 
Algco ; Sergeants — John Alli.*on, Joscidi Cassi- 
dy. James I'almcr ; Corporals — Daniel Southard, 



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Cooper Urouks, John HiUton ; Dttrmmor, Benja- 
min Agi-ns. 

2d. Capt.'iin, Uichard 'Hewlett ; First Lieuten- 
ant, Ejihraim 3lor.-e ; Second Lieutenant, Dow 
Ditmai-s ; .Sergeants — Saumel Brown, Nicholas 
Wilson, Timothy liTll : Corporals' — John Larrabee, 
Isaac Totten, .James Itrown. 

3rd. Cai)tain, I'etrus Stuyvesant; First Lieu- 
tenant, David Jones; Second Lieutenant, Morris 
Smith; .Sergeants— Simeon f^iliitb, George Dun- 
bar, James ilarr, Cornelius TiiriKT ; Corporals — 
JeT«iaiah Finch, John "Walters, Matthew Kobius. 
— Cul. Mss., Vol. 85. 

1758, Mill/ 31. — The following bills for lodging 
and victualling French officers, iu 1757 and 1758," 
at 7s. per week, were ordered to be paid by the 
Assembly, — Jour., 2 : 558. 

'I'tioinas Ilinthman, f 

AVilliam Sackott, 

John Losie," 

.lohu Foster, 

AVilliam Denton, 

Jonah Iiliodes, 

Josejih Hetts. 

Jose[ih Lawrence, 

Itichard I'infold, 

Nathaniel Jloure, 

Benjamin Waters, for transporting them from 
Jamaica to Newtown, August, 1757, XI, 10. 

Adam Lawrence, for trouble, time and expense, 
in fetching and boarding out all the aforesaid 
French prisoners, scut to tjueens County, ..£3,00. 

1758.— Hun away, June 24th, from Jamaica, 
James Thorn, a CiU'penter, red liair, freckled sandy 
complexion, a musket ball scav on his rii^hl leg. 
He had on a blue great coat, red jilusli wai.slcoat 
without sleeves, an ordinary hat with ii;wtow silver 
lace ou it, and a cut wig^ ■ Ifc took a horse with a 
snip on the nose and a brand ; also, a Ifussel 
hunting saddle with green worsted girt, without 
housing or saddle cloth, a snaffic bridle with buckle 
at the bits. Forty shillings reward for man and 
horse or-20». for titlier, ami charges paid by Caleb 
AVkealton. 

1758, Jiili/ 17. — iOs. i,V((Yr;v/.— Deserted from 
Captain Hewlett's company, AVilliam Steele, aged 
twenty-five, dark complexion, English born; John 
Conner, Irish born, aged thirty, fair complexion ; 
Hamilton Blackwood, Irish, a mariner, brown 
complexion, aged twenty-niue — all eidisted iu 
Queens - County ; .aiul, from Captnki A'erplank's 
company, Benjamin Akerly, Long Island born, 
.aged tweuty-tlnee,' ruddy complexion ; William 
Johnson, aged twenty-four, red hair; John Wil- 
liams, aged thirty-four, black hair. — I'oslbui/. 

1758. — To be sold nt public vendue, Saturday, 
July 2Pth, at. the late dwelling of lUchbcU Mott, 
deceased, ou. Cow Neck, one hundred acres of good 
land on the west side of bis farm, well watered and 
timbered, good fences and a grove of locust timber. 
Heury Sands, John Mott, Deborah Mott, Executors. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



31 



H 



175S, Nor. 20. — A purse of <£ 10 is to be run for 
at NeM'town, ou December 5th, the best of three 
licats, one mile each. Entrance, one dollar, to be 
paid the day before the race to Daniel Betts.r— Js-^.. 
Y. Mercury. 

17.58, Dec. 5. — The people of Jamaica and 
Newtown petition the A.*semblv- to be relieved of 
the heavy and unequal burthens they labor under 
by having His JIajesty's regular troops quartered 
among them. — Ass. Jour., 2 : blii 

1758, Dec. — At a warmly contested election 
Hicks, a partisan of Clovernor Clinton, and his col- 
league, Zebulon Seaman, were elected over Mr. 
Justice Jones and Cornell, who were of the Liv- 
ingston party,. 

1759, Jan. 1. — Captain Falconer offers $-3 re- 
ward, and the allowance for apprehending desert- 
ers, for John Smith, a deserter from His Majesty's 
Forty-fourth Regiment, now quartered at Hemp- 
stead. He has a short nose, round fece, a little 
thick-lipt, speaks English with a German accent.- — 
N. Y. Mercurij. 

1759, Jan 1. — "William Betts'' farm- for sale, 
pleasantly situated at the west end of the Slain 
Street, Jamaica.. li has one hundred and forty 
acres of good land in good fence, whereof eighteen 
is woodland, a good new dwelling-house with sash 
wmdows, stone well, orchards yielding in bearing- 
years, ten or twelve hogsheads of cider. — Postboy. 

1759, Jan. 22. — To be sold or let, the house at 
Jamaica, formerly belonging-to Richard R. Smith, 
deceased, very convenient for a tavern or any other 
business. — Postboy. 

1759, Feb. 5. — 'William Pedly, born in England, 
deserted from His Majesty's Forty-fourth Regi- 
ment, quartered at Jamaica, Captain Richard Bay- 
ly's company of Grenadiers, He had on a red 
rugg coat, a fustian frock with plate buttons under 
it. — Postboy. 

17-59, Feb. 26. — For sale the dwellingJiorise of 
the Rev. Mr. Colg.au, situate near the Beaver Pond, 
Jamaica. It has eight rooms on a floor and two. 
good rooms up stairs, and is in good repair, ■with a 
barn and sixty-six acres of land and an orchard of 
one hundred trees — all in good fence. The pui-- 
chaser need not advance ready money, but bonds 
with good security will be accepted by Mary Col- 
gan. 

17-59, March 1. — For invading the French pos- 
sessions in Canada the quota of Queens County 
was three hmidred men ; of Kings, sixtj'-eight ;: 
of Suffolk, two hundred and eighty-nine. Captain 
Seaman brought in a bill to compel certain per- 
sons in Queens County to enlist in the company of 
the district or beat where they reside. — As^. Jour., 
2 : .594, 597. 

1759, AjiriJ 10. — The officers of the three com- 
panies of Queens County recruits (three hundred 
effective men) for the French war are : 



1st. Captain, Ephraim Morse; First Lieuten- 
ant, George Dunbar;, Second Lieutenant, Eoeloff 
Duryea.. 

2ud., Captain, Daniel "Wright ; First Lieuten- 
ant, James Casseday ; Second Lieutenant, Isaac 
Seaman. 

3rd. Captain, Richard Hewlett ; First Lieuten- 
ant, Joseph Bedell ; Second Lieutenant, Michael 
"Weeks.— Co/. Mss., Vol. 87. 

1759, A^ml 30.— Ou Monday last His Excel- 
lency Jeffery Amherst, Esq., Major-General and 
commander of all His Majesty's forces in North 
Amei'ica, set out from New York for Jamaica, 
where he reviewed nine companies of Colonel Fra- 
zcr's Highlanders and retiu-ned to town the same 
night. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1759, May 14. — Notiee.^3os,e^\i Burling, at 
Flushing, dyes and pi-esses all sorts of broad- 
cloths, takes out mildews, dyes and stiffens all 
sorts of silks and stuffs, with care and dispatch. — 
N. Y. Mercury. 

1759, May 24, — Colonel Stephen Hicks received 
£29 for defraying the expenses of attending and 
keeping watch at the beacon in Queens County, 
from May to Oct.— Ass. Jour., 2 : 636. 

1759, Oct. 7. — Taken ujj in the public highway, 
at Newtown, on Sundaj-, a pocket book with mon- 
ey and several gold rings in it. Apply to Mr. 
John Moore, prove property and pay for this no- 
tice. 

1759, Nor. 5. — "We hear that, to-morrow, gTcat 
rejoicings ai-e to be at Jamaica, at the success of 
His Majesty's army in North America. A whole 
ox is to be roasted for the great multitude of peo- 
ple expected there, and empty hogsheads are pre- 
pared to make punch in. At night there is to be 
a large bonfire. The usual loyal healths will be 
drank attended with a: chorus. — N. Y. Gazette. 

1759, Xor. 5. — ^I'hc inhabitants of Long Island 
are requested to make up their accounts for keep- 
ing French prisoners for several months past at 
their houses. — Postboy. 

1759, Nor. 7.— The inhabitants of Flushing 
celebrated the reduction of Quebec, that long 
dreaded sink ot French perfidy, and cruelty. An 
elegant entertainment was provided at which the 
principle persons of the place were present. After 
dhiner the paternal tenderness of our most gracious 
Sovereign for these infant colonies, the patriotism 
and integi'ity of Mr. Pitt, the fortitude and activity 
of our generals and admirals, etc., with everj' other 
toast that loj'alty and gratitude could dictate were 
drank. Each toast was accompanied by a dis- 
charge of cannon — in all above one hundred. The 
evening was iishered in with a large bonfire and 
illumination. The Governor has ajipoiuted a day 
of. Thanksgiving for the reduction of the forts at 
Ticonderoga, Crown Point and Niagara, and the 
victory at Quebec. — X. Y. Mercury. 

1760, Feb. 18.— To let the plantation or flirm of 



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the estate of Joseph Bowne, Flusliing, deceased. 
It has forty acres choice u](laiul and meadow, f^ood 
fencer, n dweilin^-house witli nine njoiiis and five 
fire-places, with a large kitchen adjoining, an orch- 
ard i\-ith a variety of fniit trees, good b»m, store- 
house aTrdx)riier ont-houses. Enquire of William 
Lawrence, Moscjueto Cove, or Joseph Bownc, 
Flushing. 

17C0, March 3. — .Toseph Haviland offers for 
sale, at Flushing landing, a new house, and lot of 
ground two hundred and fort3--foin- hy sixty-five 
feet, very fit for a gentlemau's country seat. 

1760, Murch 31. — For sale the plantation, where 
Mr. Colgan resided many years with his family. 
There arc seventy acres, a large dwelling-liouse, 
two stories high, sash windows, eight fire places ; 
having the beautiful prospect of a large pimd be- 
fore the door called Beaver I'oud. A very suitable 
place for a gentleman. Also, cows, horses, liogs 
and farming uteur^ils. F.uimirc of John 'J'hompson, 
living on the premises. 

17G0, March 31. — To let, a convenient aiul 
commodious large dwellitig hoiise, with sash win- 
dows and leantos, situated in the town of Jam.iica, 
now in the teniire of Mrs. Colgan. Enquire at 
John Burnet's, Attorney -at-Law, New York. 

17C0, Ajn-il 7.— To let, the Ferrj- at Whitestone, 
•with a house, garden and orchard, for the term of 
one or five years. Enquire of John Xieoll, near 
the premises. 

1760~Will be exposed to sale, April lOtb, at 
noon, at public vendue, the now dwelling-house of 
Daniel Duryce, in Jamaica, with i'orty or fifty 
acres cleared land, in good fence and well watered. 
Also, better than fifteen acres of woodland, which 
lies hand}'. The house is new and well linished 
in two apartments, each having a fire-place, be- 
sides good leautos adjoining. There is a luw barn 
thirty-six by forty -eight feet, an orchard, garden, 
8tonc-well and several other conveniences, pleas- 
antly situated for a gentleman's seat. 

17G0, April 14.— Ran away from Bernardus 
Bydcr, Flushing, a negro man Ciesar, aged twenty- 
five, this country born, not a right black, has a lit- 
tle of the yellowish cast, a prett}' lusty fellow, 
talks good Etiglish, if frightened stutters very 
much, has lost one of his front t((th ; had on a 
light colored Devonshire-kersey coat, a soldier's 
red jacket, breeches and hat, aiul a jiair of old 
shoes. 40s. reward if taken on the Island ; or X'.'i 
if taken off the Island. — rosihotj. 

1760.— To be sold and entered, on May 1st, the 
farm of George Frost, deceased, two miles from 
the town of (lysterbay landing. It has one hun- 
dred and fifty or one hundred and sixty acres, good 
fence, half cleared, timbered with chestiuit, oak and 
walnut, two good dwelliug-lionscs, barn, two or- 
chards that make one hundred IimitcIs of cider per 
year, cider-mill, screw-jiress, grist-mill with liint- 
Btoiics, two boiling-mills, fulling-mill and press- 



house. Apply to Benjamin Townsend, Jerico, or 
John Underbill, Matinecock. — I'ustboy. 

17C0, May 5. — Notice. — A negro, wandering 
about without a pass, was taken up at IIeni])stead, 
by Benjamin Stewart, schoolmaster, and jiut in 
Jamaica Jail, where he now awaits the order of his 
master, who, he says, is Colonel Dyer, of Wind-, 
ham. — X. Y. Mercury. 

1760, May 12. — Bun away from John Thomp- 
son, Jamaica, Rose JIc Bride, a servant woman, 
bom in Ireland, lusty, well-looking, of fair com- 
plexion and light hair. She had on a dark calico 
gown, and gold ear-rings fixed in her ears. A J'e- 
ward of Ws. is ofl'ered, and all persons arc forbid 
entertaining or concealing her.* 

1700, May 27. — To be sold at auction, at John 
Forbush's, near .Success, a quantity of tea, pepper, 
powder in quarter-casks, sugar in barrels, and a 
variety of shop goods ; also, cattle, horses, sheep 
and farming utensils, late the estate of John For- 
busli, Jr., deceased. 

1760.— The oftieers of the Queens Cotnity re- 
cruits (one hundred and ten men) for the French 
war were : 

1st. Captain, Ephraim Morse ; First Lieutenant, 
Roeloff Duryea ; Second Lieutenant, Abraham 
Ilemscn. 

2nd. Captain, Daniel AVright ; First Lieutenant, 
Edward Burk ; Second Lieutenant, John Dean. — 
A', y. Col. Mss., Vol. 88. 

1700, JiiJy 28. — $5 Heward. — Iiun awny from 
Richard Betts, Jamaica, a new negro, named Cas- 
talio. lie has several cuts in his body, his two 
fore teeth filed and holes in both ears. He had on 
an Ozenbrigs shirt and trowsers and cross-banvd 
red linen waistcoat. — X. Y. Mercury. 

1700, Auy. 2. — Will be exposed to sale at ven- 
due the land, one hundred and fifty acres, lately 
])Ossesscd liv Amos Morril, deceased, on Oak Neck, 
with all the inijirovenieuts thereon. It is nnnarka- 
bly convenient for a ship-builder, has a good work- 
house, blacksmith's shop, two dwelling liouses, two 
small orchards and a good quantity of timber. 
Title given by AVilliam and Jacob A\'altou & Co. 
— N. Y. Mercury. 

17(50. — Cow Neck, August 13th. Ilendrick 
( )ndenloiik oilers ri'G reward for a runaway negro 
n.iinid I'rinius, a likely, well-looking fellow, speaks 
English and the low Duteii, jilays on the violin 
and can read and write. He had on a castor hat 
and grav ratteen coat lined with brown caiublet 
and vellow metal Imttons on it. He also carried 
ort' a green everlasting Jacket lined with shalloon, a 
j)air of black evei lasting breeches aiul cheik trows- 
ers, a fine linen homespun and an ( )snabrig"s .•^liirt 
and a pair of pnmiis. He has attended a grist-mill 
and it is likely he will forgt; a pass. 

".Slie, prolialily, w.is one of tlie class of cniigrauts, cnllcj 
I!iiiini|ilioiiiMs,\vli()so sfTvices, fur (i term ot years, were 
sulil liy tlio t-aptiiiu to i>ay her passage. 



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17(30. — Died, August 27th, at Jamaica, after a 
few days illness, Samuel Clowes, Esq., in his 
eighty-seventh year. He was manj' years a noted 
lawyer, and well skilled in mathematics, in which 
he was instructed by th(> famous Dr. Flamstead. 
He left a numerous posterity and an Hnblemishcd 
character. — N. Y. Mctriirtj. 

1760, Aug^ 28. — Received of Mr. Benjamin 
Sands, of Cow Neck, the sum of £07,10, in full, 
for a negro wench called Eve, sold and delivered 
per me, I'ctfT Hegeman, of Oj'sterbay, Witness 
present Samuel Wec^s, 

1760, Oct. 19, — Vendue at Beiyamin Hincli- 
miu's, Jamaica, of all sorts of dry goods (whole 
pieces and remnants) lately the effects of Hart 
Aaron and Jacob Cohen, of Flushing, N-ewtown, 
Islip and Jerico. For six months credit they will 
he sold very cheap. — N. Y. 3Icrcury. 

1760. — Thursda}-, October 23d, was observed, 
throughout this I'roviuce, as a daj' of public and 
solemn Tiianksgiving for the Divine blessing on 
His Majesty's arms, in the reduction of Canada. — 
N. Y. Mcrciirj/, 

17G0, Xov. 20.— There arc five hundred British 
soldiers arrived, under convoy of the Devonshire, 
who arc to be c[uartered on Long Island. Some of 
these transports will eou^-ey the French prisoners to 
old France. 

1760, Dec. 29.— For sale a pleasant and com- 
plete farm on the north side of Hempstead Plains, 
near the Hon. Colonel Josiah Martin's. It has 
two hundred and twelve acres, well fenced, a large 
young orchard of choice fruit, two mowing groinids 
[iroducing upwards of fifty loads of best English 
hay. Tiie house has four rooms and fire-places on 
a floor, coach and store-house ; also, horses, cattle 
and plantation utensils, etc. Thomas Truxton*, 
living on the premises, will give a good title. 

1761, FcL 19.— Thomas Brain/- offers for sale a 
pleasantly situated fariK, where he now lives, on 
the road to Flatbush, within tw® short miles of 
Jamaica, and a mile and a half from the water, 
where is good fishing, fowJing and ovstering. It 
has one hundred acres of good land, tvventv of 
woodland, a house, barn, orchard of sixty trees, 
and is well watered- 

1761, Feb. 24. — The total vote of Queens Coun- 
ty for Members of Assembly was 6.50. David 
Jones had 382; Thomas Cornell, 363; Thomas 
Hicks, 312; Zebulon Seaman, 217, and William 
Talmau, 42. Jones and Cornell were returned by 
the Sheritt'. but their election was successfullv con- 
tested by Hicks and Seaman. The Sheriii' was 

*He was the father of Commodore Truxton, who went 
to Mr. Se.abury's school at Hempstead, in 171)1. Colonel 
Martin was father of Dr. Samuel Martin, of Kock Hall, 
Koekaway, who died of a lingering sickness, April 19, 180ti, 
aged sixty-six, and was buried at Heniiistead, in the chai - 
eel of St. Cieorge's Church, of which he had been a bent- 
factor. 



reprimanded by the House for his undue and ille- 
g;il behaviour, and a new election ordered to be 
held April '20th and Slst, 'when the Shcrifi' made a 
'double rcl'nrn, thus-. 

Thoimas Cornell atid David Jones. 

Thomas Cornell and Zebulon Seaman. 

A scrutiny of the votes was held at Jamaica, 
June'Sth, and a decision made in favor of Seaman,* 
Dec. 9th.— ^S5. JoHi:, 2 : 648, 678, ami I'vstboi/. 

1761, Aprii 2.— The late garrison of Detroit, 
who are now prisoners of war on Long Island, will 
embark for France. All persons who have em- 
ployed them to work at a distance from Jamaica, 
will return them to the prison there immediately. 
The Canadians will go to Canada. On Monday 
next the provision money due the inhabitants of 
Queens County, for billeting the French prisoners 
of 1759, will be paid to Adam L.awrence. High- 
Sheriif, at Hempstead, for distributiou. Billeting 
for prisoners taken at Isle au Noix and Fort Lew- 
is, in 1760, will also be paid to the Sheriff. — X. Y. 
■Posihoij. 

1761, April 8. — The following members of the 
Church of England, as fey law established, at Ja- 
maica, petition the Governor for a charter. — See, 
also. Doc. His., 3 : 324. 

Betts, Richard,} Ogden, Jacob, Dr.,f 

Betts, Thomas,t Dldfield, Joseph, 

Braine, Thomas,!' Oldfield, Joseph, .Ir., 

Carpenter, Benjamin, Scabury, Samuel, Jr., 
Come-s, Jolint minister. 

Comes, Gilbert, Smith, John, 

Cornell, Thomas, Jr., Smith, Samuel, t 

Sherlock, William, t 
Truxton, Thomas, 
Troup, Jolin,| 
Van Hook, Isaac, 
Welling, William, 
Whitliead, Beiijamin,t 



Dunbar, George, 
Howell, Robert, 
Ilinchman, Thomas, t 
Huchins. John, 
Inues, John, Dr., 
Iia^^■re.l^ce, Adam, 



Beside and including most of the above the 
following (some being non-residents) subscribed 
isoiiey fbr the repairs of the •clnirch : 



Armstrong, John, 
Betts, William, 
Betts, John, 
Burnett, John, 
Colgan, Fleming, 
Hanmiersl}-, Thomas, 
ilcirsemaiulen, Daniel 
Howard, AN'illiain, 
Hutehins & Howell, 



Jones, Thomas, Dr., 
Jauncey, John, 
Murray, AVilliam, 
Folhemus, Tunis, 
Robinson, .Joseph, 
Smith, Samuel, Jr.,|| 
Smith John, (Union), 
Troup, Robert, 
Van Courtland, Philip, 



* James Cornell and Luke Cummins, Clerks, who made 
out the Poll-lists, were cited before the Committee and, on 
the report of the Committee being made to the House, it 
was decided th.it AVibiam Forbes, Giibei't Week.s, James 
Pearsnll. Jolin Prior, Roelof Duryee. Bernardus Stagg and 
Key. Abrali.'ini Kete',tis,\vho had purchased tVeeliolds with- 
in three moiitlis of tlicir time of voting, sliould, notwith- 
standing, be allowed tlK'ir votes, tlms deciding in favor of 
Seaman. The vote of Thomas Carman, born deaf and 
dumb, was rejected. 

tVestrymen. tCbnrcli Wardens. 

USamuel Smith lived at Little Plains. 



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1701. Man 27. — The friend* of the Church of 
England, in Flushing, praj- for an act of incorpora- 
tion.. They say they have no minister of their 
own, that divine sri:>-ice- is seldom performed, a.s 
then' is- but one jua-tor for Jamaica, Newtown and 
I'lushingt that they have erected a decent church 
and. iutend to. ]>rovide for the support of a clergy- 
man.— €()/. Mss., S9 : 129. 

Aspiuwall, John, Mitchell, Jacamiali, 



5[arstou, John, 
Robert, Chri:JtoplK.-r, 
Thorn, Daniel, 
Tlioni, Jacob, 
Tom, Nathaniel, 
Thorn, William, 
Thorn, Benjamin, 
AVright, Charles, 
Wilson, John. 



IJownc, Josejili, 
ISrowu, Franc!.-*, 
Cornell, Chiirles, 
Dyer, John 
Doughty Isaac, 
Fowler, Benjamin, 
Grcnell, Thomas, 
Ilaviland, Joseph, 
Lewis, Foster, 
Morrell, John, 

17G2, Feb. 1. — To be sold and entered on when 
the purchaser plea-^es, a small plantation, half a 
mile e;i*t of Jamaica village, on which Mr. 8eabu- 
ry. Rector of the church, now lives. It contains 
twenty-eight acres of good land, a good dwelling- 
house, (one end new), a gputecl building, a dry 
cellar under the whole house, a well of good water, 
new barn, hovel and smoke-house. There is a fine 
orchard that make? fifty barrels of cider ; also, a 
screw-press and cider-mill of a new invention, that 
grinds fifty bushels of apples in an hour. Also, 
fourteen acre.* woodland, two miles from the fiirm, 
and eight acres of salt meadow, that cuts twenty 
loads of salt hay. Apply to the abovesaid Samuel 
Scabury, Jr.,* who will give a good title.^A'"..y., 
JleiTiiri/. 

1762, Feb. 1.5, — Card. — Benjamin Lawrenc*,- of 
Flushing, has declined keeping tiivem, but gentle- 
men traveling may be supplied with good tidiiah. 
lie also takes in young gentlemen to board by the 
year. — iV. V. Mciciiri/.. 

1102, 3IaiTh 27.— The F-cv. Mr. Samuel Sea- 
bury, of Uemj)Stead, in order to enlarge his school, 
has engaged a young gentleman as usher who is a 
candidate for orders. Mr. S. will entertain yomig 
gentlemen at his own house in a genteel manner, 
at r£30 per year ; schooling, washing and wood for 
school-fire included. — X. Y. Mercury. 

1762, April 12. — The house of Tunis Wortman, 
of ()ysterb.iy, was robbed of XiV-i in Connecticut 
money, consisting of twenty and forty shillin<r 
bills, and ^£670 in bills of credit of this Colony. 
Also, a bundle of receipts of payment. — X. >-, . 
Mcrcurif. 

1762, April 26.— William Rudgc, late of Glou- 
cester, old England, coBtinues his school at llal- 
let's Cove, where he teaches writing in the usual 
hands, arithmetic, book-keeping, Italian, Latin and 
Greek. There is an opportunity of sending letters 
and parcels from New York almost daily by the 

•Mr. Seabory was afterward Bishop of Connecticut. 



pettyaugers. — The subscribers willing to continue 
the schoolmaster (as ^wc have found him a man oi 
close application and scrLriety, and capable of his 
otfice) are now ready to take in boarders at €18 
]>er annum: Jacob Blackwfll, Richard Berrien, 
John (ireenoak, Jacob Rapalje, Richard Pinfold, 
.John McDannough, Tliomas, Jacob, William, 
Richard and Samuel IIallett,.Jr. — X. Y. Mercury. 

1762, Sepi. 2. — The rain has altered the face of 
the country.. There has been none on Long Island 
siuce com planting. This is the third summer of 
severe drought over all British North America. 
Prorisions arc high.. Butter is 2:s. UW. per pound, 
roots, greens and fruits are higher than ever known 
before. One man will make JESOO by water-mi-l- 
ous. — Postboy. 

1762, Oct. IL — There is now in Jamaici jail a 
negro fellow who si)eaks either French or Spanish, 
and will speak no English, lie was taken up in 
the woods near Jam lica, by William Watts. — X. 
Y. Mercury. 

1762, Ikc.G. — Stock for shipping, such as .sheep, 
hogs, etc., may be had of John Nicoll, White- 
stone. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1762, Bee. 22. — There was killt^ by Thorass 
Everitt, a cow, raised and fatted by Colonel Ben- 
jamin Trcdwell. of Great Neck, whose weight was, 
the fo'a: quarters, six. hundred and seventy-six 
pounds ; tiUlow besides tht kidneys, one hundred 
and forty-fjiu- pounds ; hide, si.xty-three pounds. 
This perhaps exceeds any killed iu this Province. 
— X . Y.. Mercury. 

1763, Feb. 28. — Joseph Ilaviland, Flushing 
bav side, offers for sale his fann of one hundred 
and thirty-three arres, pleasantly situated by the 
Sound, where all vessels pass in sight, one mile 
from Whitestone, verj' handy to New York mar- 
kets, where a great deal of money can be made, Jis 
there Is a great plenty of fruits, such as sugar 
pears, bell pears, and sundry other sorts, cherries 
in abundance, a large orchard of a great variety of 
fruit. There is a stream of fresh water for a mill ; 
also, fresh and salt meadow. Twenty-two acres 
arc woodbind. 

1763, April 11. — Thomas Dodge and I'etras 
Onderdonk want a man well qualified to teach a 
school on Cow Neck. IL; muy be settled with 
reasonable support. — X. Y. Gazette.. 

1763.— New York Free Ma.->ons' Ctlrse of SI 00 
to be run for, April 'iii, the lies* two of three heats, 
each heat tlarce tiiues round Ikaver Pond, Jamaica, 
each horse to carry nine stone weight and to be 
entered with 5Ir. Thomas Braine. paying 30*-. en- 
trance. The entrance money to lie run for next 
dav — the whole to be under the inspection of three 
Free Masons. — X.Y.JIer'Mry. . 

1763, June. — The Rev. Samuel Seabur)-, of 
Hempstead, in his Diary, says: The ticket No. 
5866, in the Light-house and public Lottery of 
New Y'ork, drew in my favor, by the blessing of 



QUEENS COUXTY 



God, j£500 (of -VN-Iiicli I received c€425, there being 
a deduction of fifteen per cent.,) for -n-liich I now 
record to my posterity ni}'' thanks and praise to 
Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts. Amen. 

1763, July. — Whereas divers persons, without 
any right or license so to do, have of late, with 
sloojis, boats and other craft, presumed to come 
into Jamaica Bay and taken, destroyed and carried 
away quantities of clams, mussels and other fish, 
to the great damage of said to'mi, this is to give 
warning to all persons who have no right or liber- 
ty that they do forbear to commit any such tres- 
pass in the bay for the futme ; other\\'ise they will 
be prosecuted at law for the same by Thomas 
Cornell, Jr., and Waters Smith.. By order of the 
town. 

17G3, J nil) 14. — The wife of Benjamin Dusen- 
bnr}-, of Long Island, aged fifty-five, had for sev- 
eral years been afflicted with the stone. It was 
extracted by Dr. Jones, and weighed seven and a 
half ounces, and was eight or nine inches in cir- 
ciimfcrnnee. 

1763, :Xov. 28. — Died, at Jamaica, last week, 
John Cockefer who was bom so long ago that for 
many years past he had forgot his Ifge. He often 
said he was a soldier in the Fort at Xew York, in 
Gov. Leisler's time (who was here during. the civil 
war in 1689) and had been a man gi-owu several 
years before he enlisted, and that when a young 
man he had often shot quails and squirrels on or 
near Pot baker's *hill, in Xew York, which was 
then a ■<.\-ildei-ness. [He and his wife Tryntie, 
©■nned a house and farm of one hundred and fifty 
acres, at the village of Springfield.] — Weymmi's 
N. Y. Gazette. 

1763, Bee. 5.— To be sold by Jean Caverly,t a 
neck of land, near Mosquito Cove, of fifty acres, 
with a large double-hou-e, two stories high, barn, 
work-house, and orchard of over one himdred 
trees of very good fruit, well timbered and watered, 
very convenient for a ship carpenter or ferry ; 
likewise fishing and fowling. — N. Y. Mcrciny. 

1764, Jan. 23. — On Tuesday last Joseph, and 
Richardson Cornell, of New York, shop-keepers, 
absconded, hai-iug first taken up goods fi-om ditYer- 
eut merchants to the amoimt of £7,000, and con- 
verted the gi'cater part of them into ready cash. 
They then went to Cow Neck and there shut 
themselves up in a room in the house of Henry 
Sands. Their creditors were in pursuit of them on 
last Friday morning, and fomid tlie outer door 
latched, but opened it without opposition. When 
the officer approached the room where the Cornells 
were they threatened him with death. He however 
proceeded to force the door when the}^ fired a gun 
through it, over his head. Timothy ^SlcCarty 
thereupon said : Fu-e away, my ladsi! we'll have 

*The liill in Jobn street. 

tin 1730 he petitions for a fenT fi-om Caverly Island to 
Eye. 



you yet. Another gun or two was quickly fired, 
by which he was killed on the spot. The Cornells 
escaped the same day, and, it was siapposed, were 
conveyed on board a schooner in the Sound. The 
Coroner's verdict was "wilful murder." McCar- 
ty's body was carried to New York on Saturday 
night, and decently interred on Simday evening. — 
iV. Y. Merc ur If. 

I7fi4, Fcl). 6. — Thomas Braine offers for sale a 
house in the town-spot of Jamaica, now in the 
tenure of the Rev. Mr. Hughs. The house is two 
stories high, with three rooms on the lower floor ; 
the garden is enclosed with picket-pales. Also, 
forty-five acres of land. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1764, Fch. 13. — Charles Crommelinc, New York, 
offers for sale a farm, pleasantly situated, bordering 
on Hempstead Plains ; bounded westerly by Adam 
Lawrence's, and easterly by Gabriel and George D. 
Ludlow's ; ninety acres of upland, twenty ot wood 
and fifty of plains, twelve of which last is now in 
rye. The upland is a good soil for wheat or Indi- 
an com, and little has been tilled for many years 
past. A new shingled barn forty four-feet square, 
a new house not quite finished, thu-ty-oue by twen- 
ty-three feet, with two fire-places on first floor. 
Also, eighteen thousand brick, seventy cart loads 
of Hell Gate stone, red cedar posts, and timber 
squared for a house fifty by forty feet. — N. Y. 
Mercury.. 

1764, ilff(>-c7(2S.— All persons, in town or coun- 
try, indebted to Joseph Sacket, in New York, are 
desired to pay off their debts, as he designs to re- 
move to Jamaica. 

1764.— John Field, Jr., John Thorn, Jr., and 
Mary, ividow of John Wilson, of Flushing, offer 
for sale, April 10th, his dwelling-house, garden, 
store-house and wharf ; also, a very fine boat. — N. 
Y. Mercury. 

1764. — To be ran for, April 12th, on the new 
course, on Hempstead Plains, a purse of =€50, the 
best of three four-mile heats, each horse caiTviuo- 
nine stone and paying 50s. entrance, or double at 
the Post. On I'riday a purse of c€20 and upwards, 
free for half-bred horses only, six years old and 
under, canying. eight stone, the best of three two- 
mile heats. Horses to be entered with Mr. John 
Comes, Jamaica. Not less than three re2)uted 
running horses to start, and to be subject to the 
King's plate articles. Judges will be ajipointed to 
terminate all disputes. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1764. — John WiEot, Esq., of Flushing, through 
the earnest persuasion of his friends andhis desire 
to serve his county, offers himself as candidate at 
the ensumg election of Representatives from Queens 
County, which is to be hold May 23.*— iV. Y. 
Mercury. 

1764, June 21. — To be sold, a iilantatiou, with 
the stock, at Whitestone, eighteen miles from the 

*Daiiiel Kissam was elected over Mr. Willet. 



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Ferry, by laud, and twelve by water. It is 
bounded near a luilc by the Sound, beginning 
westward of 'Whitestone Point, and joining 5ir. 
John Cornell aud Francis Lewis to tlie eastward. 
The shore abounds in sj)ring3 and shell fish. 
There arc two hundred acres, aud thirteen of mea- 
dow in Flushing Bay. The grass land is suitable 
for stock of all sorts. There are about forty acres 
of woodland aud swamp-land, that has grass in 
the driest season. It is a rich spot, if cleared, for 
hemp. It has a cedar fence, two orchards, an 
abundance of fruit trees, thousands of jxiung lo- 
custs, black walnuts, and some Aladeira nuts. It 
has two dwelling-houses, kitchens, barns and a 
good wharf. The wlieat, rye, Indian corn, oats 
aud flax are in the grouud. To be entered on im- 
mediately. Enquire of John XicoU, on the premi- 
ses, or Edward Nicoll, Xew York 

1764, June 21. — On Friday morning last, died, 
at Hempste.ad, of a nervous disorder aud inipost- 
hume in his side, the Itev. Mr. Samuel Seabury, 
minister of the church there, one of the Alissiona- 
ries of the Honorable Society for the pvojiiigation 
of the Gospel. A gentleman of an amiable exem- 
plary character, greatly and generally beloved aild 
lamented. — Foslloi/. 

1764, Jitli/ 2. — Captain Joseph IIa\-iland offers 
for sale, hi>5 farm of one hundred and Hfty-three 
acres, at Bayside. It fronts on the Sound, where 
all the vessels pass. The house has live rooms on 
a floor. Also, for sale, blackwalnut aud mahogany 
tables, desks, a pier-glass and a great many pic- 
tures. 

1764, Atiff. 20. — Daniel Ilulct, Jamaica, adver- 
tises that he has taken up a negro man, who says liis 
master is Joseph Hendricks, aud shall put him in 
Jamaica Jail, where the owner may have him, (if he 
dont get from said jail) he paying for the trouble 
and all charges. lie is a young fellow, has a scar 
on his left eye, well set, short, has n hat without 
brims, brown coat, old stocking-leggins, blue 
breeches, no shoes, and speaks broken English. — 
K. Y. Mercury. 

27G4. — On Sunday, September 2nd, Daniel 
Youngs' house, at Oystcrbay, was broken open 
and robbed of six silver table-spoons, marked " D. 
C", and five tea-spoons, marked " D. 11. Y." It 
delivered or conveyed to the owner uo ((uestions 
•will be asked ; otherwise a good reward is oft'cred 
for apprehending the thief bo that he may be had 
to justice.— iV. y. Mercury. 

1764, Sept. 4. — Daniel Kissam, elected to the 
General Assembly in jdace of Thomas Cornell, 
deceased, brings in a bill to sell the arms bought 
by the fines of the Quakers. — Ass. Jour. 

1764, Sqyf. 24. — The proprietors of the new 
woolen manufactory at Hempstead, give notice to 
all persons in any way vested iu the manufacture 
of wool, such as wool-combers, weavers, doathers, 
shearers, dyers, spinners, carders, or those under- 
standing any branch of the broadcloath,i blanket. 



or Stroud manufacture, that by aj)plyiug to them, 
they will meet extraordinary- encouragement. Any 
gentleman, shop-ki'eper, or others, by seuding pat- 
teras of any color, may be supplied, on short notice, 
with broadcloths ef|ual to any imported. Heady 
money paid for jmlled aud sheared wool. 

1764, Sept. 25. — The bills of the following per- 
sons for boarding Frendi jirisoners, iu 1756-7-8, 
were ordered to In- paid bv the Ass<'mbly : Oliver 
Beesly, Thomas Hallet, Jacob Blackwell, Corne- 
lius Berrien, AVilliam Sackett, tertius ; AYilliam 
Field, John Lawrence, John Combs, Bynier Pro- 
basco, AVilliam Lawrence, John Smith, John 
Hoogland, Samuel Gerritse, Bk-hard Van Dyke, 
John Bobert, Christopher Bobert, Joseph Gris- 
wold, Samuel Fish, SanuicI and John Townsend, 
Cieorge Weeks, Ji>hu Butler, Nafhani(.-1 Tom, Wil- 
liam Sackett, William -Sackett, Jr. Thomas 
Sackett, for furnishing medicine, 1750, and Hen- 
drick Suydam, for transporting some aged and sick 
neutral French. — Joitr., 2 : 757. 

1764, Oct. 1. — ^Tunis I'ollicmus is now erecting 
a fulling-mill, two miles south of Jamaica town, 
which will be finished in a month. There will bo 
n person to attend who is well acquainted with all 
the branches an* business of a fuller and dyer. — 
N. Y. Mercury. 

1704, Oct. 5. — Complaint is made to the Assem- 
bly that indigent persons build small huts on the 
liighways and vacant lauds in Queens County, and 
therein conceal and harbor vagnuits. — Jour. 

.# 1764.— iVejf MarJcet RACES.— -To bemn for, 
over the new course, Monday, October Sth, a 
purse of r£50, free for any horse carrying nine 
stone, the best of three two-mile heats. On Tues- 
day a purse of ^£20, free for any horse bred in the 
Province of New York. Entrance at !Mr. John 
Combs', Jamaica. Certificates, luider the hands of 
the breeders, must be produced of the ages and 
qualifications of the horses that ruu on Tuesday. — 
N. Y. Mercury. 

1764, Oct. 0.— Purse .£.50. — Baces at Newmar- 
ket, by Mr. Smith's bay horse Hero, Mr. Thome's 
grey horse Starling, and ]\lr. Leary's bay horse 
Old England. All imported fmm England. Star- 
ling gained the first and second heats with case. — 
X. Y. Mercury. 

1764, Oct. l-O. — Very great cliangos have been 
wrought on many persons of late iu the neighbor- 
ing Provinces, and especially on Long Island, 
caused by the preaching of the Bev. Mr. Whit- 
field.— A'. 1'. 3Icrcury. 

17G4, Xor. 6. — To be sold, a plantation at 
Whitestone, having two acres of garden ground, 
Iwcntv-eight acres rich laiul, well watered, and five 
acres "of salt meadow. It has two dwelling-honscs, 
a large store-house, l)arn, stables, chair-house, etc. 
Enquire of Widow Elizabeth Barker, and her 
daughter Elizabeth Stewart, in New York. 

1764, Nov. 8. — Foimd lately, at Jamaica, a 



QUEENS COUNTY 



small sum of money, which the owner may have 
ou provmg^iroperty and paying charges, by appli- 
cation to Mr. Thomas Braiue, tavern-keeper. 

1764, Bee. 10. — "Was formed the Society for 
promoting Arts, Agriculture and Economy iu the 
Province of New York. Statfed meetings the first 
Monday of every mouth. 

BESJA3IIN KiSSAJi, Secretary. 

1765. — Xotiee. — It is requested that the inhabi- 
tants of Tfhii'hing, Newtown and Jamaica, should 
meet at John Comes' tavern, Jamaica, January 
1st, to agree on officers aud rules to advance hus- 
bandry and manufactm-es and to suppress liixuiy. 
— iV. Y. Posthoij. 

176.5, Jan. 21. — Left his master's service, aa 
apprentice lad, "William Morrell, born at Newtown, 
aged nineteen, hair and complexion "fair, smooth- 
faced, and looked boyish, -by ti'ade a shoemaker, 
speaks and laughs loud, has a lazy clumsy walk, 
took a hali-v,-oru castor hat, light-brown wig, white 
cloth coat without buttons, brown " sagathy double- 
breasted jacket, leather breeches, check shirt and 
a pair of half boots ; he speaks English aud a little 
low Dutch, is obliging and good natured. AVho- 
ever secures said lad shall receive S.3 reward, and 
charges paid, by John Crcc. — N. Y. Mereury. 

176.5, Feb. 2-5.— Wanted, by the Sociefy f^.r 
jiromoting AETS, &:-c,, fifty good spinning-wheels. 
Apply to Obadiah AYells, James Armstrong aud 
John Lamb, New York. 

176-5, MarcJi 11. — The Society for promoting 
Arts, offers a Premium of £20, to the ten women 
who shall spin the most linen yarn in 1765, to be 
distributed according to their resj^iectivo merits. — 
N. Y. Mercury. 

1765, March 11.^— To be exposed "o' sale, by 
way of public vendue, a plantation in Newtown, 
late of Andrew Eiker, deceased. It -has one hun- 
dred acres with good improvements, a- good bearing 
orchard of one lumdred and fifty apple trees, most- 
ly grafted. A Iso, half of Hewlett's Island, which 
is well timbered, and. has tlto convenience of a 
good watei'iug-place. Also, salt meadow and 
marsh, lying in the Sound. The whole is very 
convenient for fishing, fowling, etc., (where you 
may have clams and 03'sters at your door all sea- 
sons of the year) and within ten miles of New 
York markets. Due attendance will be given by 
John C, Abraham aud Samuel Riker. — N. Y. 
Mercury. 

1765, F(^j. 22. — Johannes aud Petrns Loft 
offer for sale the fiirm of Hendrick Lott, deceased, 
three miles west of Jamaica, on the road to the 
Ferry. It has a house, barn, orchard, stoue well, 
a watering place for cattle aud one humlrcd aud 
fifty acres of laud. 

17-6.5. — Will be exposed to sale, at puliHc ven- 
due, April Stli, the home-lot of land in Jamaica, 
where Thomas Braiue now lives (formerly Samuel 



Clowes') consisting of fourteen acres, having a 
large brick hoBse and kitchen, with a spacious brick 
house adjoining, ivr-o stories high and three rooms 
on a flftor, and cellar-kitchen, completely finished, 
glazed arid painted. It has a barn covered with 
cedar, and several other erections, and an orchard 
of seventy trees. Also, a large house, two stories 
high, fronting the north street, with a garden- 
spot.^ 

N. B. — Said Braine has one thousand acres of 
Isnd to dispose of near Schenectady. 

176-5, April 22. — James McCan-cll, at the 
school-house near 'Six. Benjamin Waters', in New- 
town, encouraged by the universal approbation lie 
has met with the past year, continues to teach 
reading, writing, arithmetic, book-keeping, plain 
and enhci-ic trigonometry, survejiug, guaging, 
navigation, etc., etc. Scholars genteelly boarded 
on reasonable terms.-^-A^ Y. Mercury, 

1765, April 22. — Sarah Betts offers for sale two 
faiTOS, two iiiilcs south of Jamaica, the one, T>[iller's 
Neck, has two hundred aud forty acres, well tim- 
bered and watered ; the other, Old Town-neck, 
three hundred and fifty acres, one hundred of 
wood and one hundred of salt and fresh meadow, 
the rest clear upland -with a young orchard of two 
Imndred apple trees. 

1765. — To be let and entered on. May 1st, the 
noted hoiise, at Jamaica, formerly belougiug to 
Mr. Clowes, at present m possession of Thomas 
Braine, with the new building adjoining. Both 
houses have twelve rooms, and a kitchen joining 
the old house. There is a barn aud other out- 
houses and fourteen acres of choice pasture land. 
Enquire of Lawrence Eeade. 

1765, March 25. — To be run for round Beaver 
Pond, at Jamaica, Thursday, May gd, a piece of 
plate of c£20 value, free for auj- horse bred in this 
Government, carrying ten stout*. The horses to 
start at the distance-post aud run twice round ; 
and as fixr as the Tree the third round, for each 
heat — the best two of three heats. The entrance 
money to be run for next day by all but the 
winning and distanced horses. Entrance with 
John Comes 205,, or double at the tost. — N. Y. 
Mercury. 

1765, May 23.— Thomas Philips, from Flush- 
ing, intends opening a writing-school, in Horse and 
Cart Street, New York. Any persons choosing to 
favor him with the tuition of their children may 
depend on his best endeavors. Writing done at 
the most reasonable rate, either in the merchant or 
scrivener's way. 

17G5. — On Sunday evening-, July 21st, the bam 
of William Lawrence, -of Newtown, was struck by 
lightniug and totally consumed in a very few min- 
utes, with a large quantity of hay and wheat, a 
new riding chair, and many other things of value', 
to the amount of £300. 

*TLis is Dr. Shelton's coi-ner. 



IN OLDEN TLMES. 



. l/Go. — To be solil at vondiu-, August 7tli, at 
two P. M., .1 pleasant, woll-^iituatcd lnni.-c and lot, 
containing twelvf aci'ps, now in j)o.--hcs.-*iun of the 
Widow Colfpin, Jamaica, nearly oppo.^itc tlie Eng- 
li:']] and joining tlic Dntdi cliurcli. TJic house is 
almost new and wfU-hnilt, and ha'; four rooms ou 
a floor, and two lire jilacos, a good cellar, an excel- 
lent gardc'H, an orchard and well of exceeding 
good water, llev. Benoni Braduer, at Nine I'art- 
uers, will give a good title. 

17C5, Xoi'. 14. — 63 Reicaiil.—Unn away from 
Pari BurttL", Newtown, a ne^rro man nlave, aged 
thirty, of a yellowish color, and a good dcid pitted 
by the .small pox about the no.-e. lie had ou a 
vhitc cloth jacket, blue Dnllils great coat much 
faded, ■nitli 'white flat metal buttons, buckskin 
breeches, black and white mixed yarn stockings, 
new .shocfi, and .small old wool hat. 

17Go, Dcc.b. — Zaehariah Hood, a Stamp oflicer, 
fled, November iiSth, from Jfaryl.md tn New York, 
and took sanctuary in Fort Cicoi'ge, which tiover- 
uor Colden had strongly fortified, but, on the arri- 
val of (iovernor Jloore, he retired with Colden to 
Flushing, and the Fort was distuantled. A'(dun- 
tecr parties of the .'^ons of Liberty soon after went 
to Flushing by land and water when fifty of them 
surrounded Hood's lodgings and forced him to re- 
sign. Tlien one hinidred persons on horseback 
and in carriages, in regular order, escorted him to 
Jamaica, (!Mr. IFood and. auothcr gentleman riding 
in a chair in the centi-e) where he took the o.ath 
before Justice Samuel Smith. !Mr. H. then thanked 
the company for their politeness when he was 
complimented and huzzaed and invited to an en- 
tertainment, but he excused himself in as much as 
lie was in such a franu^ of body and mind that he 
should be unhappy in company. Jlan}- constitu- 
tional toasts were drunk and next morning the 
company (except those who lived on ]>ong Lsland) 
1 set out for Xew York in several divisions, carrying^ 
' the flag of liberty with the words Libeiii/, I'nqicr- 
tij and no Stumj}s inscribed thereon. — -N. Y. Jouv- 
vul. 

1766, Feb. 3. — $5 Itcivard. — Run away from 
John Polhemus, Jamaica, a negro man, Mink, a 
well-set fellow, of a lightish complexion, had on a 
light colored homespun great coat with horn-but- 
tons, a Forrest cloth jacket, blue everlasting 
breeches, lie took also a pair of buek.'^kin breech- 
es ■with silver buttons, a pair of white and of blue 
and white stockings, and double-soled half-woni 
shoos. 

1766, Jt'&. .^O. — For sale, the house and farm 
pleasantly situated near the Beaver Pond, formerly 
ihe property of the Ecv. Mr. Colgan.* The honsc 
is fifty-six feet front and rear, ,mu1 has been lately 
uewly repaired and painted, with several new ad- 
ditional buildings. There aro about seventy-five 
acres of good land, including an orchard cajiable of 

"Tliis is the CoGw'isc propcrtj-, now owucJ by Mr. Lau- 
rens licevc. 



producing- sixty barrels of ciikr yearly. Enquire 
of Dr. Charle.- Arding, ou the premises. N. B.— 
Terms of paymont easy. 

17G6, April A. — At vendue, twelve acres of 
land late of Richard 'N'alentiuc, Jr., at Heiupsteiul 
Harbor, most of it mowing p^round and orchard, 
and eight or ten acres of tindjer land near. . It is 
pleasantly situatwl aliout fifty rods from a landing 
and grist-mill, con^ en'Kiit for a .shop-keeper, tradea- 
laan or a gentleman's eonntry seat. Also, cattle, 
horses and household goods, jm' Williams Seaman 
and Benjamin Robins, Executors. 

17G6, Jidi) 31.— Whereas, Elizabeth, wife of 
John Barhite, Jr., of Hempstead, has heretofore 
run him in debt, these are to warn all persons not 
to entertain or trust her. 

176C, Ang. 7. — Last Thursday evening, Jtr. 
Thomas Parsels, who lived ou and owned part of 
Piusels' Island, is supposed to have attempted to 
swim on horseback across the river to liia own 
house, as he had said he would and could do so, 
and the horec had often swam over of his own 
accord. The saddle wtu; found bung up near the 
shore, but he and the horse were missing till Mon- 
day night, when the man's body was found floating [ 
at llellgate. The horse has not been heard of 
since. — Fostboi/. 

17GG, iSc2>t. IS. — Run away from Dow Ditmara 
3d, Jamaica, a negro fellow, Tony, of a yellowish 
complexion, speaks Dutch and English, had on a 
brown camblet coat and waistcoat, plush breeches 
and trowsers ; 205. reward. N. B.— All persons 
are forewarned not to conceal or carry away said 
negro. 

17GG, Drr. 20.— Last ]\ronday, Joscjdi An- 
drews, mariner, on information that he was one of 
the villains wln) murdered Capt. Rulcii' Duryca, of 
the sloop Polly, ou her pa^s;lgo to the West lu- 
dicSr-andall tlie people ou board except one, was 
appreheiuled at Boston. Two days after his am- 
val there hcj had his hair cut. off so as to disguise 
his looks. Many of Duryca's things were found 
on him, particular!}' a m(;dal which he wore around 
his neck and several shirts marked with the initials 
of his name. A considerable sum of gold was 
found on him, and he showid great signs of guilt 
ou being first ajiprehended hut denied any knowl- 
edge of murder and piracy-. — iV. Y. Gazette. 

17G7, J<(n. 10.— Valentine H. Peters and Benja- 
min Hewlett, E.xecutors, ofl'er for sale the planta- 
tion of Dr. Charles I'etcrs, on the north side of 
Hempstead Plains. It contains two hundred acres 
clear hind in good fence, a large commodious 
house, bai-n, out-honses and stone well. 

17G7, Jan. 10. — For sale, a grist-mill of two 
pair of stones, at Flushing, ou a fine creek, where 
u boat may be brought up to the side of the mill, 
within the run of one tide from New York, with 
four huiulred acres of land and meadow, house, 
bam, orchard and mowing groimd. Enquire of 



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Isaac Willet, oc David Coleda aud James Steven- 
son, riiishujg. 

1767, Feb. 2.— Thomas Woodward offi-rsfor sale 
a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, where he 
lives, one mile from Jamaica, on the road to 
riusliing. It has eight acres of mowing ground, 
some low laud just cleared aud almost ready to 
receive any sort of grass seed, and an orchard of 
apples, pears aud peaches- 

17G7, Feb. 12. — To be sold, eighteen acres of 
land with barn, orchard and some v.'oodland. The 
house is pleasantly situated within a mile cif Flush- 
ing landing, on th« road to Jamaica. Enquire of 
Francis Yates,, on the premises, or James P;u-oOus, 
in New York. 

1767, March 9. — For sale, the farm of William 
and Jacob Walton & Co., at Hempstead Harbor. 
It has a house, barn and two hundred and thnty- 
four acres, is well timbered and some of it set out 
with Iocu.st trees. There are three orchavds and a 
choice collection of otlior fruit, all in cedar post 
fence. 

17C7. — At three o'clock, in the thick weather of 
the morning of April Sth, the ship Britannia came 
ashore on Merrick Beach, three miles south of 
Hempstead Church. At live the top-masts were 
cut away and the surf ran so high that no help 
could be had from the- shore. A sailor by the 
help of a cork-jacket, swam ashore with a line, but 
had to let go his hold in the breakers. In the 
afternoon Richard Williams, a free negro, was 
drowned in a like attempt. The passengers and 
crew remained in the fore-sliroirds that night, but 
in the morning they made a raft and some got 
ashore. The weatKer moderating, the rest were 
saved, except two seaman drowned by the over- 
setting of a boat. jfilOOO's worth of the cargo was 
saved. 

17G7, Aivil 25.— A match Race for .£50 a side, 
round Beaver Pond, by Merry Andrew and Smoak- 
er, two racers well known to sportsmen, the best of 
three four-mile heats. 

1767, 31'!)/ 7. — For sale or rent, a tract of land 
of thirty acres, with house, barn, and orchard of 
five acres, and four of woodland, now occupied by 
Mrs. Mary Everit, at the eastern part of Little 
Plains, north side of the King's road from Jamaica 
to Hempstead. It is all in good fence. Enquire 
of Robert G. Li^^ngston, New York. 

1767, June 28. — 20s. Hcwarcl. — Rim away from 
John Combes, Jamaica, a negro man. Primus, 
well set, had on blue frieze coat, leather breeches 
and blue stockings. 

17C7, Jidij 17.^The stage wagon, kept by 
Jolin Ilapalje, opposite the stone meeting-house, 
runs from .Jamaica to Brookhm three times a week, 
fare two shillings, or three pence a mile any dis- 
tance between. Said Rapalje keeps a civil house 
of entertainment for civil gentlemen and ladies. — 
N. Y. Mercury. 



1767, July 30. — Isaac Smith offers for sale his 
farm of tw-o hundred and eighty acres, under good 
improvement and in good fence, in the pleasant 
village of Ilerricks. It has good buildings, fine 
orchard and good timber. 

1767, Sept. 21'.— For sale, at William Prince's 
nursery. Flushing, a great variety of fruit trees, 
such as apple, plum, peach, nectarine, cheny, 
apricot and pear. They may be put up so as to 
be sent to Europe. Captains Jacamiah Mitchell 
and Daniel Clements go to New York, in passage 
boats, Tuesdays and Fridays. 

1767. — To be run for, October 1st, round Beav- 
er Pond, Jamaica, a piece of plate worth 0620 or 
upward, free for any horse not more than quarter 
blood. Mr. Comes and the judges to be satisfied 
(on oath if required) of the pedigyee. The next 
day a purse of £b, free for any common horse 
twice roimd the Pond to a heat. Horses to start 
each day at 2 o'clock. 

1767. — On Sunday, October ISth, the house of 
Joseph Cheeseman, north side of Hempstead 
Plaius, was entirely consumed by fire owing to a 
foul chimney, which took fire aud communicated 
to the whole building. The neighboring men be- 
ing all at church no assistance could be afforded to 
extinguish the flames. The women made shift to 
save some of the principal furniture. It is surpris- 
ing people will not be more careful to clean their 
chimnies in time, when so many accidents happen 
from foul chimneys. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1767. — To be run for at New Market, on the 
Great Plains, October 22d, a Purse of c£20, free 
for any horse not over three j'ears old ; full blood 
carrying ten stone ; half blood, eight stone, &c. 
Entrance, 20s. each, with Stephen Cornwell. 

1767, Nor. 23. — On Thursday last several men 
having been employed in digging a well for Mr. 
John Hall, of Hempstead, all but two went to din- 
ner, who, when the rest returned, were found buried 
in the well by the falling in of the eartli, except 
that their arms were not covered. At the middle 
of the afternoon one was got out and at sunset the 
other. They were both alive ; whether hurt or 
not we have not heard. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1767, Dec. 10. — Adam Lawrence, SheriflF, offers 
at public vendue, all the lands aud tenements of 
Colonel William Willett, in Flushing, consisting of 
two luiudrcd and thirty acres of clear upland, 
eighty of salt meadow joining the upland and forty- 
four acres of swamp. On it are two new dwelliuf- 
houses, one very large, four rooms on a floor and 
spacious entry, with barns, gardens, orchards and 
mowing grounds of English hay. Also, a grist- 
mill with two stones, on a fine creek within the run 
of one tide to New York, with water sufficient to 
bring a loaded boat to the side of the mill, and 
grind one hundred bushels in twenty -four hours, 
and make good flour. It is well situated for car- 
rying on the grinding, bolting and bakery busi- 
ness. 



IQ 



IN OLDEN TIMES, 



39 



17G7, Dec. 17. — On Jlontlay last was Ijroiifrlit 
to market, a cow only pix ycarx old, wliosc four 
quarters, liide and tallow wei<rlied one thousand 
and fifty-ibur pounds. 'Tifi said »lie was bred by 
3Ir. Samuel Cornell of Flushing. — N. Y. Posihoy. 

17GS, Jan l.— CW>y/.— Robert Wooffend.alc, pur- 
geon-dentist, from London, in.^tructed by the ope- 
rator for the teeth to his jirescnt Mrjesty, intends 
residing at Jamaica, during his stay in America, 
but will attend at New York every Thursday. 
He perfonns all operations on the teeth, gums, 
sockets and palate. Likewise fixes artiiicial teeth 
so as to escape disccniment, and without paiu. — 
lY. Y. Postboi/. 

17G8, -Tan. 4. — For sale a pleasant farm of over 
two hundred acres, on the road from tlie ] Mains to 
"Wliitestone Feny, two miles east of Flushing 
town. 'I'herc is a large dwelling-house, a hen- 
house, smoke-house, weaver's shop, bam, etc. The 
buildings arc all in good repair and the orchard is 
sufficient to make one hundred and lifty barrels of 
eider. Also, peaches, plums, pears and cherries, 
abundant. Much more may be said to recommend 
it. I have not enumerated the half. I expect the 
man that chooses to purcha.?e, will first take a 
view and satisfy hiuiself. Bernardus llyder ou 
the premises. 

1768, Ja)L 11.— To let, at May-day next, a very 
good convoni(;nt house for a small family, pleas- 
antly situated in .Jamaica. It has four rooms on a 
floor, and a ehinniey in each, and a garret with two 
good lodging rooms, with a kitchen next the house, 
a garden well stocked with finit trees, and coach- 
house and stable adjoining. The house has all the 
necessary conveniences, a cistcni for rain water, 
and the use of the next j'ard and well. Apply to 
Judge llorsmanden, at his house, Smith Street, 
New York. 

17C8, Jfin. 2-'). — Rulef Durye ofl'ers at vendue, 
his farm in Springfield, near the Little I'lain Hol- 
low. It contains fifty-five acres, on(; third wood- 
laud, a new barn, a double house with three fire 
places and finished with iiannel-work, and a kitch- 
en adjoining, a garden with peeked-pales around it 
and an orchard of 100 apple trees — all in good four- 
rail fence, convcMiient for a shop or tavern ; a tav- 
ern is kept now. Also, some cattle and sundry 
other things too tedious to mention. 

1768, Feb. 22. — Benjamin Sands, Cow Xeck, 
offers for sale a farm of two hundred and (ifty-six 
acres. It has two houses, two barns, chair-house, 
two orchards, and is well watered and timbered. 

1768, Feb. 20. — To be U't and entered on imme- 
diately, an exceeding good and pleasantly situated 
house, in Newtown, with a largo garden and or- 
chard, and seventeen acres of land. It has a well 
of pure water and ice-house, and all maimer of con- 
veniences. Apply to Mr. CJeorge Rape lye, tavern 
keeper. 

1768, March 4. — George "Weeks offers, for sale 



a farm of eighty acres, at the head of Hempstead 
Harbor. The house has a chinmey at e.icli end 
with four rooms on a floor and a pleasant view of 
said h.-irbor. There are two small barns, two or- 
cliards, ten acres mowing ground, and more may 
be made — all in good fence. 

1768, March 14.— To be sold by Nathaniel and 
Lambert Woodward, Jr., a plantation of eight 
acres ; the whole an orchard of the best fruit. It 
has a dwelling and out-houses, ple.isantly situated 
in the centre of Newtown. 

1768, March 21. — Thursday evening, a young 
man, son of Justice Kldert, of Queens County, 
having been at the election there, at .Jamaica, re- 
turned home, put U)i his horse and went to bed, and 
was found dead in the morning. It is supposed 
his horse flung him on the way. 

1768, March 21. — At an election for members 
of Assembly, at Jamaica, Daniel Kissam had G73 
votes ; Zebulon Seaman, G04 ; Thomas Ilicks, 
2,52 ; Rev. Abraham Keteltas, 209. 

1768.— To be sold, at the Merchants' Coffee 
IIou.-5e, New York, Slarcli .10th, a pleasant farm at 
.Jamaica, of eighty-six acres, of which fifty-seven 
is clear land, producing every sort of grain, and 
half may be mowed, twenty-three acres of wood- 
land, three-quarters of a mile from the house, on 
the fine road to the bay. A new dwelling-honsc 
well finished, four rooms on a floor, a hall twelve 
feet wide, a spaciotis ])iazza on the front fifty-four 
feet long, a new barn with excellent stables, that 
will hold fifty loads of fodder. Also, a new out- 
kitchen, fowl-house, corn-crib, pump, etc. The 
land is in four .acre lots, greatly improved. There 
arc one hundred and seventy apple trees producing, 
in a seasonable year, sixty barrels of cider. Also, 
one hundred and fifty young trees chiefly grafted. 
There are other trees lately grafted and inoculated 
with ap|)les, pears, cherries, jilums, peaches, necta- 
rines and apricots. The house is beautit'ullj- situ- 
ated on an eminence fronting the Beaver Fond, a 
quarter of a mile from the town. Apply to I'hilip 
Van Cortland, ou the premises, who will give the 
title.* 

1768, April 18. — The cold dry weather we 
have had of Lite, has been attended with bad con- 
sequences to many in the country- by the loss of 
cattle, etc. 

1768, April 2.'>. — f)n Thursday morning the 
house of the Widow, Rapalje, opposite Hell (Jate, 
was lairnt bv a spark on the roof from the low 
kitchen chinmey. ( >nly three beds were saved. — 
X. Y. Mcrciiri/. 

176S, April 2'). — To let, in Newtown, a pleas- 
ant farm of eighteen acres, formerly in possession 
of Mr. AVatkins, and since of Captain I'rovoost and 
John French, Esqrs. It lias a good house, bam. 



•Tills place is now owneil anJ occupied by William J. 
Cogswell, Esq. 



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and ice-house and other out-houscs, with an or- 
chard and mowing-ground for two liorses and four 
cows. John lilooie, Jr., will show the house. 

I7G8, May 9. — James Culver offers for sale, a 
plantation of eight acres, in the centre of Newtown. 
It has a good house with four rooms and fire-places 
on a floor, a barn and orchard of one hundred 
grafted trees. It is convenient for a merchant or 
tavern-keeper. 

17GS. — Beaver Pond Races, Monday, May 23d. 
£20 plate, free for any horse not over four j-ear.s 
old this grass, three timo=i round the Pond to a 
lieat, Ss. entrance. The winning horse to pay SI 
for scales and straw. Three must enter or no 
race. Some late obstructions that much impeded 
the horses while running, having been removed, it 
is now become the most beautiful place iu all 
America, for sport, and all lovers of the tarf ai'e 
truly invited.* 

1768, Mag 30. — $,i Beivard. — Ran away from 
Da,niel Remsen, Jamaica, an Irish sci-vant lad, 
George Adams. lie stole a blue broad-cloth coat 
with brass buttons, a green velvet jacket, buckskin 
breeches, 30s. of Jcrsej' bills and a plain gold ring. 

1708, June 20.— 20.s. Ttetcanl — Run away from 
his master, Caleb Cornwell, Cow Neck, a negro 
man. Shier, marked with small pox, by trade a 
caulker. lie had on a castor hat, linmesjivui col- 
ored jacket and trousers, blue ribbed stockings and 
brass buckles in his shoes. 

1768, June 30. — The horse Bashaw stands at 
Stephen Van Wyck's, Little Neck. He was bred 
bj' the Emperor of Morocco, who sent him as a 
present to the Dey of Algiers, and he gave him to 
the Swedish Consul there, who presented him to 
the Grand Duke of Tuscany, where he won the 
plates at Sunna, Florence, Pistoia and Sprato ; 
beating, at Florence, tlie famous English horse 
Grand Diavolo, and many others of not inferior 
note. <£3 the season. Good pasture, 2s. per 
week. 

1768, JxiJi/ 4. — "William Puntinc has set up a 
stage wagon to ply between Jamaica and Brook- 
lyn, at five o'clock, A. M. Fare 18 pence. His 
wagon is as good as any on the Island and very 
commodious. — X. Y. Jlercuri/. 

17G8, Jul;/ 11. — John Field, Executor, offer); 
for sale a negro woman, some clocks, watches and 
the farm of John Wright, less than a mile from 
Flushing landing. It has twenty acres of level 
land, part orcharding, mowed yearly. The house 
has three rooms and fire-places on a floor, and three 
above stairs. It has a dairy-house, cow-house, 
chair-house and barrack. 

1768, JuJ^f 14. — John Rapalje has lately re- 
paired his wagon which leaves Jamaica at six 

*Only two horses appeared. Captain Antliony Rutgers' 
Queen Kate and Mr. Jleard's Lady Legs. A" thousand 
persons were disappointed. 



o'clock, A. M. Children under three years of age 
t/raiis. 

1768, Aug. 8. — "Went away from Christopher 
Heysham, Flushing, by persuasion of some evil- 
minded person, a hired servant man, John Brown, 
a Swiss, who rpeaks French and broken English. 
He had on buckskin breeches, cheek shirt and an 
old hat with a brass button, and a piece of old hat 
tied round the tops of his shoes. He is addicted 
to liquor and is, perhaps, ashamed to return. All 
persons will please persuade him to his interest. 

1768, Aug. 22.— Last Sunday week, the wife of 
Ezekiel Furnsan, of Newtown, took sick in the 
meeting-house during divine service in the after- 
noon, and, being carried to the house of 3Ir. Fish, 
.she expired a few hours after. — N. Y. Mercury. 

176S, Aug. 29. — 20s. Eetrard. — Run away from 
"William Mott, Great Neck, a young Indian servant 
fellow, named Stephen, sometimes Pompey. He 
had on a tow homespun shirt and trowsers, okl 
shoes, hat and a gi'ay homespun jacket. It is sup- 
posed he may have a pass. 

1768, Scjit. 8. — All persons indebted to the es- 
tate of Daniel Lawrence, decea.sed, of Flushing, 
will make payment to Benjamin Kissam, Attoruey- 
at-Law, New Yorli. Also, to be sold at Flushing, 
October 1st, a likely negro wench. Abraham 
Lawrence, Executor. 

1768, <SVjjf. 12. — Run away from Abraham 
LawKiK'e, Flushing, an Irish servant lad, James 
Lawson, pitted with the small pox, nose pretty 
long. 40s. reward. 

1768, Oct. 3. — Run away from George Ryerson, 
Foster's Meadow, an indentured Irish servant man, 
Thomas Mnllin, marked with small pox. He had 
on a short coat with small cuff's, old leather breech- 
es, new felt hat. 20s. reward and charges paid. 

1768, Oct. 10. — John and Garret "\'anderbilt and 
Pctrus and Hendrick Onderdonk, Executors, offer 
for sale the farm of the late John "\'anderbilt, con- 
sisting of one hundred and sixtj- acres, ot which 
fiftecu is extraordinary good, called Indian land. 
It is pleasantly situated at the foot of the Beach, 
(which extends nearly across Hempstead Harbor) 
on which a great number of loads of seaweed may 
be collected, which is very good for manure. — X. 
Y. Mercury. 

176S, Oct. 17. — For the races at New Market, 
Oct. 25th and 26th, there are no less than twelve 
capital coursers on the sod. 

1768.— New Market Races, Friday, Oct. 21st. 
Purse =£50. The best of three four-mile heats, free 
for any horse. Saturday, a purse of d£nO for four 
year old horses. 50s. entrance. Horses to be 
shown and entered at the starting-post the day be- 
fore running, in presence of the judges. Disputes 
will be decided by a majority of tfie subscribers 
present. The winning horse each day to pay 50s. 
to put the course in order. No less than three re- 



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putcd liorees to bo allowed to start at twelve 
o'clock each day. — N. Y. Mfrcuri/. 

1708, Oct. 31. — Thf f'.illowiiif; lior.T.-< stinted at 

New Market for one of the snlji-ciiption pursi'S of 
JE50: 

Nortliunibcilaiid, - - 1 I 

Hotkey Leeds. - - - 2 2 

r)ld England, - - 3 dr. 

Partner, - - - - 1 dis. 

The next day for the other purse of 4'^0. 
L.ith, - - - 1 

Liberty, - - - - 2 dr.. 

Lady Leg.', - . - dis. 
Young Sterling, - - - dis. 

To-moiTOw Britou and Sterling run at Now 
Market, for .£100, the lie.st of tliree four-mile heats ;* 
and next day Richmond and 1 )uvc run for t-iO. — 
N. Y. 3Ierciiri/. 

1768, Xov. 14. — For sale, the jdnutation of Ben- 
jamin Whitehead, Jr., at Jamaica, south l^ide, 
eight3--five acres. It has a two-story house with 
three rooms on the lower and four on the upper 
floor, two fire-jdaees below and o)ie uj) stairs, barn, 
stable, corn-crib, oixhard, garden, and many other 
good accommodations; all in good ivnce. 

17G8, Nov. 21. — ^'alentiue H. IVtore offers for 
sale the lands and tenements where he now lives, 
at Hempstead. The house is large and well fin- 
ished, with out-houses, convenient for public busi- 
ness. There are one hundred acres of land divided 
into lots convenient to build upon ; .ill in good 
fence. 

1768, Dec. IS. — The New York Society for jm)- 
raoting Arts, adjudged a premium of .CIO to 
Thomas Young, of Oysterbay, ftr the largest nur- 
sery of apple trees. It contains twenty-seven 
thousand one hundred and twcnty-tlircc trees. — 
Game's Mercury. 

1768, Dec. 22.— The voters of Queens County 
send instructions to tlieir Asseniblyraen, Seaman 
and Kissam "on the subversion of tli(; grand char- 
acteristics of the Bl'itisli Con-titution, ta.xation by 
repj-esentation." Tliey also complain that trade is 
languishing, that specie is withdrawn from us by 
duties, that credit is declining and the paper cm-- 
rcncy sunk. They wish to linvc a iTmonstrancc; 
sent to their Sovereign in order to obtain a removal 
of grievances and also a respectful letter to the 
Committee of Massacliu.'sctts in reply to theirs. 

1760, Jan. 30. — To let, the noted mills and 
farm thereto belonging, at ('did Spring, now in oc- 
cupation of Rowland Chambers, lately known as 
Ilawkshurst's Mills. Enquire of Xallianiel ifeirs- 
tou. New York. 

1769, Jan. 30.— To let, a jdace of forty acres, 
where George Rapelye lives, in the town-spot of 
Newtown. It has a double Iiouse with entry 
through the middle, dairy room, and an orchard of 
pippins, pcarmains, Spitzenbergs ■■md other sorts. 



It will mow a good burthen of gntss, and is suitable 
for IX gentleman's seat, shop-keeper, or tavern, as 
it hiis beeu long occupied in that way. 

1700, T\h. 13. — For sale the home-lot of Corne- 
lius Smith, adjoining the County Hall, Jamaica. 
It has a double house ^nth two fire places, and 
kitchen at one end and a new shop at the other. 
The barn is covered with cedar shingles and 
floored with Jersey' two-inch plant. There is also 
an orrh.ard and chestnut timber. Also, a bark- 
mill, tan-vats, and a good' watur-pit' ten feet square 
with a living stream i herein, tlrrec hinidred yards 
from the door. The place is convenient for a tav- 
ern, shop-keeper or tradesman, and capeoialiy for a 
tiinner and currier. 

1'7(J0, Feb. 13: — Tunis Polliemus offers for sale 
his fulling and irrist-mill, two miles south of Ja- 
m'lica, with ninety acres of laud, house, barn, and 
orchard of two hundred trees. 

1700, Fch. 13.— For sale, the farm of David 
i^eainan, deceased, lying between Jerico and 
AVheatly. It has a barn, crib and other out- 
houses, two IiuikIk d ami fifty acres of land, two 
orchards, of t«o hundred and fifty trees, a peach 
orchard and a plenty of cherry trees. Apply to 
Jacob Searing, on the premises, or to Zebulon, 
William and Davd Seaman, or Richard Willets. 

1769, 3[(ircli 20;— Caleb Cornwell offers for sale 
a farm, on Cow Neck, of about forty acres, with 
house, smoke-house, barn and other small houses, 
an orchard, jieach-orchard, jdums of several sorts, 
cherries and jiears. Likewise a sloop on the 
stocks, thirty-si.x feet by the keel, sireight rabbet, 
sixteen feet beam, with masts, rigging and sails, 
all fit for launching in three or four days.. 

1700, April 3. — Joseph Bownc, of Flushing, 
offers for sale his house, garden, wharf and store- 
house, at Flushing landing. The wharf is twenty- 
six feet wide where a boat may l.iy along side. 
Also, half the vessel that Captain Jacamiah -Mitch- 
ell follows the boating business in. 

1700, April 10. — ilartin Schenck offers for sale 
his farm of one hundred and fifty acres, two miles 
from Jamaica, on the eastern road to Fhtshiiig. 

17G9, April 17.— Israel llallet offers to let, near 
the English Kills, a house with three rooms on a 
floor, two fire-places, a large garden, and pasture 
for ."everal creatures, and fruit for the summer. It 
is near the water and forty rods from the landing, 
where a passage-boat constantly plies to and from 
New York.; and most, ot^ the produce of Newtown 
is exported fromi said landing. 

L.70n, M(i>i \.: — ^The Rev. Mr. Joshua Bloomer, 
for the mission of .Jamaica, came passenger from 
England in the ship Britannia. — X. Y. Mercury. 

1700, Mai/ 18. — This morning, after a long trial 
before a Court of Admiralty, in the City ll.iil, .Jo- 
seph Andrews (or Andirson, a native of ^Vall•s.) 
was found guilty of murder and pirac}* and con- 



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cJe-iuBcd to be hung for having, iu August 17GG, in 
concert with Mieholas Johnson, murdered llulef 
Duryea, of Jamaica,* captaiu, Peter Demilt, mate, 
and one Cobb, a cabin-boy ; also, two passengers, 
AVells Coverly and John Van Bunschoten, who 
was going to the West Indies for liis health. John- 
sou was broken on the rack, and huug.at St. Eu- 
statia. — iV. y. Gaxeitc. 

17G9, Mmj 23. — Joseph Andrews was hanged 
on the shore of the Ncrth River. When dead his 
body was cut down and suspended in chains on a 
high gallows on the most- conspicuous part of Bed- 
low's Islnnd. Ho nt last coufessc-i the murder 
and that it was done for money, but denied b'-ing 
eancornfl in. any other. — X. Y. Journal. 

1770, Jan. 1. — Thomns Brown, fuller, from- 
London, has taken the fulling-mill of Richard 
Kirk, at Hempstead Harbor, where all persons, 
whatsoever, may have their cloth done in the 
neatest manner and on reasonable tcrms.-^iV. Y. 
Mercury. 

1770, Jan. 1.— To [/cnflemcn fanners, etc.— A 
manufacturer, just arrived from England, has taken 
the fulling-mill of Tunis Polhemu.s, south of Ja- 
maica, where all sorts of woollen cloth, serges, liu- 
ceys, etc., are completely dressed and colored in the 
English manner ; where ail possible care will be 
taken. 

177§, Ularcli 5.- — For sale; the pleasant countrj' 
seat »r f;irm>< where the Res'. John I'ierson lived, 
on the great road from the Ferry to Hempstead. 
Apply to Waters Smith, near the premises. 

1770, March 15. — About three o'clock last Sat- 
urday morning, a fire broke out iu the house of 
Captain Samuel Hallet, near Ilellgate, which, with 
most of the furniture, was entirely destroyed. 
Loss, c£l,SOO. He and his wife were absent. A 
villain in the neighborhood is suspected. — N. Y. 
Journal. 

17i70, March 19.' — A cow, raised by John As- 
pinwall, of Flushing, was killed at/- Jamaica, by 
Benjamin Carpenter, butcher. It-was nine j'ears 
old and weighed, in beef, hide and tallow, one 
thousand eight hundred and eighteen. pounds. — N. 
Y.. 3L:rcurij. 

1770, April IG. — Carpenter's Jamaica stage, in 
summer, must set off iu the morning between five 
and si.x o'clock, and not leave Brooklyn ferry till 
about the same time in the eveuinc:. For shia'le 
passengers, eighteen pence. "Woman with a cliikl 
two shillings. Every cwt. of sv.giir, &c., one shil- 
ling. A small bundle or handkerchief, coffee, i&c, 
(if the wagoner buys them) 4f?. ta QiV. Every let- 
ter delivered and a return, 3(?. A basket or bunch 
offish, if delivered to him, 2d.; if bought by hiui, 
4f/. A five-gallon keg of wine or a small trunk, 
6d. ; a large trunk, one shilling. 

•Durjea was leauing liis head, asU'eji, on a chicken coop 
when he receiveil the fatal blow, and died without a "roan. 



11 



Passengers taken and delivered no further 
east than Captain Bamaby Bums', and no further 
west than Dr. Arding's, without extra pay. 

1770, April 23. — Richard Kirk has lately set 
up a fulling mill iit neinpstead Harbor, which is as 
well calculated as any on the Island, having a 
stock of the largest size, ami water sufficient to 
keep her. constantly going, and no other mill on the 
stre.am to take off her water. The mill stands 
within four rods of the IFarbor, where a craft may 
come up. Any leather-dressers inclined to favor 
me with their custom, may depend on being used 
well and on reasonable terms. N.B. — The names 
of the masters of the three sloops that attend said 
Harbor are Clarke Lawrence, Joshua I'iue ami 
Gilbert Seaman. — N. Y. Mercury. - 

1770, May 2S. — A dead whale, sixty feet long, 
was driven ashore at Rockaway — N. Y. Mercury. 

1770, July 5.— A comet has, for some time, ap- 
peared, which moves west-northerly, with great 
velocity, but we have not been able to get a satis- 
fiictory account of it. — N-. Y. Mercury.: 

1771. — On Monday, January 21st, four young 
men riding on Hempstead Plains, near Mr. "Wa- 
ters' tavern, to try the speed of their horses, iu a 
frolic, set out on a race, when one of them named 
Whitson, living a mile from that place, near the 
village of Bethpage, stopping his horse too sudden- 
ly it fell upon him and fractured his skull so that 
he died iuHnediately. — X. Y. Mercury. 

1771. — Thomas I'oblas, of Oysterbay, petitions 
the Governor for relief. He lost a lawsuit ■while 
in a gaol. His sister tore oft' thc'TOof of his house 
and, with other outrages, frightened his •.'•"ifi;' r.m^ 
children from the homestead left him by his father, 
which she pretends to claim Col. Mss., Yd. 97. 

1771, Feb. 7.— "William Sackett, Jr., offers for 
sale his very beautifully situated and convenient 
house and lot of thirty acres, at the head of Mas- 
peth Creek, being the public landing, seven miles 
from New I'ork by land or water, well situated for 
a shop or tavern, and has a right to a stream suffi- 
cient to erect. a mill with one or two pair of stones. 
The public road from the Ferry to Newtown leads 
by the place at a convenient distance. The house 
hasTi pretty prospect of meadows and creeks. Oys- 
ters, fish and crabs plenty iu their season. Large 
barn and other onthonses. 

1771, Feb. 21.— Died, at Flushing, Friday last, 
Rebecca, the amiable consort of Major Robert 
Bayard, daughter of the Hon. Charles Apthorpe, 
of Boston,' universally regretted by all ^\ho had 
the honor of her acf[uaintance. 

1771, March 2.— On Saturday night the well 
known Adam Smith broke into the cabin of Zcbu- 
lon Waterman's boat, lying in I'eck Slip, New 
York, and took out the captain's chest, bedding, 
wearing apparel and £G m cash. He then went 
with his wife to a tavern near the Slip, and having 



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a IjuikIIc uuder his coat it raised suspicion. Next 
day, dili-rt'iit search being made lor him, lie was 
arrested and some goods totmd on liim. Where- 
upon he] coniesaud and was committed. He was 
tried, January 2 1st, for burglary, and sentenced to 
be hanged February SLst, 1772. lu his dying 
confession Smitli says he was bora at Oj-stcrbaj', 
in 1750, of poor but honest parents, who brought 
liim up without learning, tiiough they instructed 
him in the ])rinciples of the Christian religion. On 
coming to New York lie fell into bad company, and 
was thus brought to an untimely enil. — X. 3'. 
JournuJ, March 7. 1771, and Jan. 30, 1772. 

1771, March 28. — Saturday evening l.xst, died, 
suddenly, on the road to Jamaica, Captain Haniaby 
Byrne. He came to town that morniug with Mrs. 
Byrne and on their return home in the evening, he 
was taken ill on the rond about a mile from his 
own bouse, and being carried into ^[r. Belts', oppo- 
site the church, in Jamaica, there expired. — ^'. Y. 
Joitrual. 

1771, April IS. — The past winter was mild till 
February, when it was succeeded bv a cold stormy 
spring with short intervals of warm weather, which 
has retarded the springing of vegetables and grass. 
For some days past the wind has been high at N, 
W., and the air as cold as winter. On Tuesd.ij' it 
snowed for some hours. The wind and weather 
has prevented the usual SHpjilics of wood, raising 
the price to th(; extraordinary bight of 'Ms. per 
cord fur nut and 24.S. for oak, tlie like hardly ever 
known before at this time of the year. — iV. Y. 
Jiiurmil. 

1771, April 28. — To be sold by public vendue, 
the household furniture of Barnaby Byrne, de- 
ceased, with a great variety of fashionable plate, 
some horses, cows, wagons, fanning utensils, two 
negro men, and one negro woman with a young 
child. The negroes are good servants fit for city 
or country service. Also, the farm of f.rty-throe 
acres, arable and mowing ground, whereon is an ex- 
cellent house, liarn, stable, chaise-house, cider- 
house, eider-mill, two orchards and a garden. AVil- 
liam Bayard or Terence Kerin, Kxeeulors, or J[rs. 
Jane Byrne, on the premises, or Mr. .John Long, 
New York. 

1771, May 24. — To be sold, a pleasant farm, at 
AVhitestone, on the Sound side of I.ong Island, of 
about three hundred acres, Kiujuire of Francis 
Lewis, on the premises, who has also farming ne- 
groes for sale. 

1771, June 3. — >€5 Iteward and charges.— Uim 
away from Matthew Franklin, Flushing, a lad six- 
teen vcars of age, Thduias Farringtun, (iiiticed 
away by his brother Daniel, as is supposed). He 
had on a wool hat with a button and loop, a brown 
bonv'spun coat, linen vest, velvet breeches, ,'ind 
shoes half worn. He took with him a red and 
■wliitc dog partly of the hound breed. 

1771, June 10. — John Ilewlett, Oysterbay, of- 



fers forty shillings reward and charges, for a run- 
away negro. Jack) who has big ancles, toi-s small 
and walks stooping; wore a blue coat and buck- 
skin breeches ; had plenty of money and may 
forge a pass. — ^Y. Y. Meivuri/. 

1771, Jufi/ IS.— Sarah Burling offers for sale a 
good grist and fulliiig-niill, on a good stream of 
w.iter, « itli til'ty aei<s of land, about a mile and a 
half from Flushing landing. It has a house, barn, 
out-houses, dye-house, and .ill other conveniences 
for carrying on the clothier's business. The whole 
in good re[iair. There is a good orchard and ex- 
traordinary good mowing ground, and more may 
be easily made. 

1771, Jiih/ 2:5.— The creditors of Mrs. Klizabeth 
Seabury, and of the late .S. Se.ibury, are n'ljucsted 
to meet at Timothy Clowes', in the town-spot of 
llcmpste.id, to prove their accounts and receive 
their dividends from JUchard Ilewlett and S. 
Clowes, Trustees. — X. Y. Mercury. 

1771. — Benjamin Cheeseman, north side of 
Hempstead Plains, offers 40.>". reward for a black 
mire, stolen in the night of July 21st. 

1771, July 25.— AVe hear from Newtown, tli.it 
one Birch, an Knglishman, aged si.xty, a poor man 
who had been Some ytars in these parts ; and in 
the bite war had been a soldier in the I'rovincial 
service, was found on ^londay morning dead in 
the garret of the house where he lived. He held 
one end of a i-ope in his hand which he had thrown 
over a beam. He had often tried to get to Eng- 
land where lie had a wealthy sister, but could not 
get money for the passage. — N. Y. Journal. 

1771, Au(i. 27. — Broke from Jamaica .Jail, on 
Sunday night last, Levi Mo.ses and Theodorus 
Benjamin, both .Tews, who have been coiilined for 
sonic years past. Mastei-s of vessels and others 
are forewarned to carry them off at tlicir peril. 
Thomas ^\^llett, Slieritl'. 

1771, Sept' 2. — Beaver Pond Race. Pui-se, 
tC2.5 for any horse except Whitehead Cornell's 
Steady, and Timothy Cornell's Itirlimniid. Horses 
to be entered with Widow Combs, Jamaica. — N. 
Y. Mercury. 

1771, Sept. 12.— The Purse of .£100, by the 
JIac.ai'oni Club, was run for at New JIarket, last 
Alonday, by Mr, Del.incey's horse Ijath. and Mr. 
"Waters' horse Liberty, which was won ^^•ith great 
ease by the former. As a field couhl not be made 
the next day for the jiurse of -^.50, the matter was 
postponed till the next season. 

1771, Sept. oO. — These are to inform the public 
that the manufactory lately carried on by Wash- 
ington & (iants, at Oysterbay, will still be carried 
on by ilessrs. Hunt & Chew, who have furnished 
themselves with all manner of ingredients from 
Kngland. 

N. B.— Said W. & (1. Ii.avc been at immense 
expense to procure workmen from the west of 



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England aud find tbem very capable. — X. Y. Mor- 
cury. 

1772, Jan. 30. — Died, some time since, of putrid 
fever, at St. Eustatia, wlieve be had lately settled, 
aged 21, Dr. Benjamin Ondeixlonk, eldest son 'of 
Mr. Hcndriek Ouderdonk, of Long Island. A 
young gentleman of very amiable character and 
much lamented by ail the inhabitants. — N. Y. 
Merc ur If. 

1772, March 5. — Zebnlcn Searaan, second son 
of Tenperance S. and Eobert Seaman, second son 
of Hannah S., daughters of John "Williams, late of 
Jerico, arc allowed by the Assembly to take the 
name of Williams, conformable to the will of John 
Williams who devised theia lands in ( >ysterbay. — 
N. Y. JournaL 

1772, April 9. — Dr. Jacob Ogdcn offers for sale 
bis farm of forty acres, on which is a large new 
genteel house, fronting the road from Jamaica to 
No>v York, a tourth of a mile west from the town. 
There is a large barn, smoke-house, aud other 
convenient buildings, an orchard, peach orcbard, 
and a large garden in which are three asparagus 
beds, and all conveniences necessary for a gentle- 
man's seat. The pleasantness and advantages of 
the bouse are more easily seen on the spot than 
described, standing on the road to New York 
market. Mutton, venison, and all sorts of poultry 
in their season, wild fowl, fish, oysters and clams 
may be had the whole year. 

1772. — Eaces. — The Macaroni purse of <£]00, 
at Newmarket. June 2d, was won by Captain De- 
lanccy's BasJiatr, beating Jlr. llichard Thome's 
mare, liaiubow, and Mr. Waters' Slouch. The 
c£50 pvu-se, next day, was won by Mr, AYaters' 
horse, Kiiif/ Herod, who beat Captain Dclancey's 
filly.— iV. V. Gasetfe. 

1772, June 18. — On Thursday last, two coMpa- 
nies of the Eoyal Regiafficnt of Artillery, tinder 
command of Colonel Jaiaes, marched from New 
Y'ork to encamp on Hempstead Plains for the 
summer season. — X. Y. JinirnaL 

1772, Aug. Si.— Daniel Thofnc and Henry 
Woolley, Executors, offer for sale the farai of Jos- 
eph Cornwell, of Flushing-, deceased, consisting of 
near three bundrwl acres, joining iSacccss I'ond. 
The bouse is two-stories with six rooms ©n a floor 
and four fire-places. There are two shingled- 
barns, an orchard of apple and other fruit trees, 
and timberlaud convenient to a bos.t that attends 
twice a week. 

1772, Aug. 3L — Nicholas Van Dj-ck bas 
bought the fulling-mill at Flushing, late Sarah 
Burling's, and employs Jonathan Davis, who un- 
derstands the fulling business in all its branches, 
and will be obliged to the public for their business. 
Cloth may be left at Jacob Sharp's, Brooklyn 
Ferry ; Leffert Lefferts', Esq,, Bedford ; AYilliam 
Howard's Half-way house, and William Letts', 
Jamaica, and it Mill be dulv forwarded. 



1772, Nor. 2, — For sale the remarkably pleas- 
ant and well cultivated farm of John Hoogland, at 
Flushing, in a good neighborhood, within a quarter 
of a mile of the town aud half a mile ctf the land- 
ing, whence boats go to New York twice a week. 
The boinse has eight rooms and three fire-jjlaces on 
the lower floor. There is a cedar-coVered barn, 
mill-bouse, hen-house, and one hundred and twenty 
acres of land in sizeable lots, a large fresh meadow 
before the door that cuts thirty loads of hay in a 
season and springs within sixty yards. There is 
an orcbard and choice fruit trees. Enquire of El- 
bert Hoogland, Flushing. 

1773, Jan. 11. — Thomas Yoimgs, of Oysterbay, 
bas about eight hundred handsome apple trees to 
disjjosc of. Those in want may give in their 
names to Mr. John Rapelye, Brooklyn Ferry, who 
is to have one hundred. They will be delivered 
there in good order for 7d. a tree- — N. Y. Mercurg. 

1773, Jan. 11. — To be sold or let, a farm of 
over two hundred acres of arable land, pleasantly 
situated north side of Hempstead Plains, Ttith an 
elegant bouse containing seventeen rooms and ten 
fire-i^laces, a large barn and other outhouses, orch- 
ard, etc. It is so well accomplished for a gentle- 
man's seat, merchant or farmer, that it stands in 
no need of any rhetoric to set it oft'. Enquire of 
Joseph Greswold, on the premises. — N. Y. Mer- 
cury. 

1773, Feb. 22.— To be sold, by Jobn Carl, a 
farm of one hundred and thirty aci-es, lying by 
the Sound, a mile cast of AVhitestone, aud within 
three miles of Flushing town. It has a jilenty of 
orcharding, a dwelling-bouse with five rooms on a 
floor, a bam, and a good spring by the door, a 
grist-mill with one pair of stones, and very conve- 
nient to transport by water to New York from the 
mill-tail, 

1773, March 8.— AVidow Keziab Comes and 
Hcnr}' Dawson, Executors, offer for sale the lai'ge 
dwelling-house with six fire-places, late of John 
Comes, deceased, in the town spot of Jamaica, 
with fifty acres of land. On it are two barns, two 
cribs, etc. It is convenient for a st«re or tavern. 
Also, two pleasure sleigbs, riding chair, etc. 

1773, March 15^. — For sale, the farm of Zebulon 
Frost, deceased, in Oj'sterbay, two miles from the 
town. There arc two hundred acres with house, 
barn, a grist-mill and fulling-mill on a fine stream, 
and is well situated for country custom. Ap])ly to 
Benjamin Townsend, Jerico ; Benjamin Coles, • 
Alusqueto Cove, or Pcnn Frost, Matinecock. 

1773, March 25.— Samuel Benny offers for sale 
a jjlcasaut situation of sixty acres, in Newtown. 
On it is a two-story house with entry and four 
rooms, with fire-places on each floor, a barn, coach- 
house and outhouses. It was formerly occupied 
by Ealph Izard, Esq. Also, another bouse, bam 
and nine acres of ground, in the town spot, suitable 
for a tradesman or merchant. 



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177:i, April 18. — Tciulicr inuilcd.-^Aiiy por-iou 
well qualified to teach school, by being well re- 
coimueiiiled, may licar of very good encourage- 
uient by applying to Audrk-s llpgem:iu orX)aniel 
Kissani, Cow "iicckti—N.' Y.- Jilercury. 

1773, Mai/ 4 ninl 5.-^Tlic horsea entered for 
the race of Xew Market, Tile.sday, are .Tames De- 
lancey'rt bay horse L'llli, Mr. WatiMs' bay liorse 
Kin;/ Herod, and ^ff. Taylor'.-* bay hor^e Anipliinii. 
For Wednpsday, James Delaucey's bay filly 
Sldiiiahcn, Mr. Heard's bay colt Archer, and Mr. 
Parker's 'bay colt Xauthiis. 

1773, 3fa>j 10. — The ^£.50 purse wa.-5 run for on 
'Tuesday, by James Delancey's l)ay horse Haghaiv, 
and Israel 'Waters' bay iu;irc Nettle : the latter 
wiiDiing. Three other horses were entered but a 
rider light enough could not be found for Lut/i, 
which occasioned none .of them to run. And on 
AVednesday, the plate of oC30 was run for by 
James Delancey's bay mare Slaitialiit anil, Mr. 
Heard's bay colt Archer ; the former wiuuing.^- 
iV. l'» Mcreiirij. 

1773, May 27.— To the leather-dressers of New 
York. There is erected an extraordinary good 
fulling-mill on Cow Neck, within a quarter of a 
mile of the landing, very handy for leather-dress- 
ers, plenty of water and every thing handv for, 
business, with boarfl and lodging (if wanlvd). The 
boats may come within a quarter of a mile of the 
mill and the subscriber* will fetch and carry the 
skins from the boats to the mill gratis. For par- 
ticulars enquire of .Samuel C.isey, Jr., silk-dyer 
and skinner, opposite Trinity Cliundi, New Vofk., 
— N. Y. Mercury. , 

1773, JlOK 3.— To be sohl, the well known 
large and convenient mills of William and .Jacob 
Walton & Co;, at Pembroke, thirty miles from 
New York, with dwelling-house, bake-liou.se and 
stores, twonty-two .".c;es of Iai»<l,.witJi. orchard of 
of best grafted fruit trc'cs, large garden and three 
acres of meadows. The stream aft'ords plenty of 
water .and fine trout in the drycst season. The 
upper mill has one ])air of stones and water to 
grind the year through ; the lower, on thp saciP 
stream has two pair. A boat with one thousand 
bushels of wheat may unload along side. The 
country is healthy and pleasant, the neighborhood 
good. If prompt payment is not convenient, bonds 
will be taken. — N. V. Mercury. 

1773, July 1. — John I.,udlow with his sister-Lu- 
law, on their way to I'lu.-ihing, was so injure<l. by 
his horse running away with the chair, ne.ir Pow- 
les Hook ferry, that he died at Flushing in two or 
three days, and was ther« buried on SutKlny. 

1773, July 5. — Last Jlonday mor,ning, a little 
before sunrise a smart shock of an earthquake was 
felt at Newtowu, Jaimiica and Foster's Meadow. — 
K. Y. Mercury. 

"Tlie subscriber forgot to add bis iiaiue, but it is supposed 
to be Baxter. — Ed. 



1773, July 2G. — Wednesday last tho bftrn of 

Jlr. , at Newtown, was burnt by liglrt- 

ning, with a quantity of hay, Avhoat, rye, etc.to a 
considerable amount. 

Country people nught to be informed to phice a 
lightning rod on their barns to prevent their being 
struck by lightning, for dry hay is very apt to 
draw it. — X. Y. Mercury. 

1773, Sejjf. 2. — Yesterday evening wc had a 
very severe luiil storm .Some of the stones 
weighed two ..ouucei, end almQ.st filled a wine 
glass. — Hiv. Gas,:,. 

1773, f)e])t. 20.— Jacob Foster, Rocka.way, ofl'ers 
for -s.ile a house and two acres of ground in the 
town spot of Jamaica. It has an orchard of all 
sorts of fruit, a barn, stable, and a shop with a fire- 
place in it, fit lor any tradesmau. but would suit a 
merchant, or.,tavern,-keeper, as a tavern has been 
kept there .uiauy years. 

1773, Oct. 11.— Thf- printer of the New York 
Mercury, in coiijunctiini with two of his friends, 
Henry Ifemsen and Hendrick tiiuufdonk, having 
lately erected a paper-mill at Heiiipslead flalbor, 
at very great cxiiense the existence of which en- 
tirely de|iends on a supply of rags, which are too 
oftiyi thfown away in the fire or swept out of doors 
and are now much wanted ; he therefore most 
humbly entreats the assistance of the good people 
of this I'rovince, and city in j)articular, to assist 
him in this undertaking which will be a saving of 
.souMi hundreds per annuiu to the colony, which 
li;is constantly, been sent .cut oi. it for p.aper of all 
sorts for tlic past forty y»?ars, the manufacturing of 
wkicli has but-very laloly originated here. The 
higlu*t price will be given for rags by the public's 
servant, Hugh (iaine. 

1773, Oct. 20. — Fur sal.', tho firm of Joseph 
llurr, deceased, jiiear Herrieks, one hundred and 
thirty-seven acfet?, well improved, new buildings, 
young- orcb.aiiJ. AUo, a I'tilaah-liouse, convenient 
ibr carrying on the jwt-adh kH*-iB»»ss. — X. Y. Mer- 
cury. 

1773, Dec. 20. — All persons are forbid trespass- 
ing oa the manor of (Queens village, on Lloyd's or 
Hor.se Neck, or fishing or ginining there as the 
d(-er which the owners stocked it with are all 
killed. Henry, John, Joseph and James Lloyd, 
ofier £20 reward for the discovery of oilenders. — 
JY. Y. Mtreury. 

1773, Bee. 21. — About 10 o'clock last Thurs- 
day morning, the house of the Hon. (u-orge Dun- 
can L1K.II0W, K.-([., third Judge of the .Sujjremc 
Court of this I'nrtince, at Henipsti-ad Plains 
[Hyde Park], took fne and was burnt to the 
ground with almost every thing therein contained, 
but providentially no lives were lost. Mr. L. 
had been in New York the day before and was 
scarce three hours at home before his house was 
all in flames. The fire originated, as is supposed, 
by means of some sparks that found their way 



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tbrougli tlie crack of an old chimuey aucl commu- 
nicated to the wooden work of one of the room>5 
above.- The loss Mr. L. sustahis bj' this accident 
cannot be less than £3,000, for besides the loss of 
his furniture, plate, etc., a library worth £.1,200 is 
entirely consumed.* — iV. Y. Mcvcwtj. 

1774, Jan. 10. — For sale, a ferm.of one hundred 
and sixty acres, at Wheatly, late the property of 
Robert Crooker, of Eye ; also, the corner house in 
Oysterbay town, now in possession of Aaron Bur- 
, tis, M'ith a bake-house and two acres of laud, most- 
ly woods. It is convenient tor any business. 
Ap])ly to John Jlonfurt, "Wheatly, Timothy Titus, 
or William- Crooker, of Rye. 

1774, Jan. 17. — Jonathan Fish, New York, of- 
fers for sale a farm of one hiuidred acres, in New- 
town, in tenure of LefFcrt Lcflcrts, within a quarter 
of, a mile of three churches. It has a cider-mill, 
mill-house, orchard and sixteen acres of hay laud. 
Also, partly adjoining the above, a farm of one 
hundred and fifty acres, ia tenure of J'ohn Yoor- 
hees, including- a house and lot, in tenure of John 
Cross. On it is. a nursery of some tiiousauds of 
apple trees. Also, the noted corner-house, now oc- 
cupied' by Mr. Abraham Rapclye, with seventy 
acres of laud. On it .arc a cider-mill, mill-house 
and other outhouses. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1774, Jan. 17.— Mattliiis Van Dyck. offers for 
sale his valuable fai-m adjoining the King's road 
leading to Jamaica, halt a mile from Flushing 
town. It contains one hundred and thirty-five 
acres, and will cut forty loads of hay, and has five 
orchards that will make seventy hogsheads of ci- 
der per year. There are three barracks, a barn, 
coach-house, wagon-bouse, chair- house, smoke- 
house, fowl-house and other outhouses too tedious 
to mention, all under shingle roofs. — N. Y. Mer- 
cury. 

1774, Jan. 29.— As Dr. William Lawrence, of 
Musquito Cove, was returning from New York, in a 
sleigh, with Jordan Coles and the widow of 
Thorue Carpenter, in descending a long steep hill 
near homo, where a large rock projects in the road, 
the horses took fright and one ran against the 
rock and was killed, and the people thrown out of 
the sleigl). Lawrence was but little hurt. Coles 
considerably and Jlrs. Carpenter much more so ; 
her eye being injured. — N. Y. llcrcuri/. 

1774, March 10. — Died, on Friday last, at the 
family seat, Mrs. Elizabeth Coldeu, lady of Alex- 
ander Colden, Surveyor-General of this Province, 
and second' daughter of Richard Nicolls, Esq., of 
this city, aged forty-nine. She was interred in a 
vault at Trinity Church. — N. Y. Journal. 

1774, Ilarch 14. — William Prince, at his nur- 
sery, Flushing landing, offers for sale one hundred 
and ten large Carolina magnolia flower trees, raised 

*This house was rebuilt, anil again, from a like cause 
burnt down ilaj- 20, Irfl'J, while iu the occupancy of WJl- 
iam Cobliet. 



from the seed — the most beautiful trees that grow 
iu America — is. per tree, four feet high ;• fifty 
large catalpa flower trees, 25. per tree. They are 
nine feet high to the uuder part of the top, and 
thick as one's leg ; thirty or forty almond trees 
that begin to beai-. Is. and Gd. each ; fifty fig trees, 
2s. each ;_ two thousand five hundred white, red and 
black currant bushes, Qd. each ; gooseberry bushes, 
Gd.; Lisbon and Madeira grape vines ; five thousand 
hautboy, chili, large English and American straw- 
berry plants ; one thousand five hundred white and 
one thousand black mulberry trees. Also, Barce- 
lona filbert trees. Is. — iY. Y. Mercury. 

1774, March 24-- Saturday last, the Hon. Cad- 
wallader Colden, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of this 
Province, arrived here from his seat, at Flushing, 
in good health.— iV. Y. Jmmial. 

1774. — The managers of the Newtown Lottery 
assure the public that the second class will begin 
drawing March 29th. A few tickets are yet to be 
had of Jlessrs: Hallet & Hazard, Broome & Piatt, 
John Murray, Thomas Crabb, and Berrien & 
Fish. — N. Y. Mercttry. 

1774, March 28. — Waters Smith, Jamaica, of- 
fers for sale a farm of forty acres, adjoining the 
church glebe, Newtown, now in the occupation of 
Mr. Abraham Riker, convenient for a gentleman or 
shopkeeper, as it has long been occupied in that 
way. 

1774, March 31.— To let, the noted and pleas- 
antly situated house, outhouses and garden, and 
two or four acres of land, in the town spot of 
Flushing, now in possession of Mrs. Mary Wilson. 
It has four rooms on the lower floor and as many 
above, and an entry abovo and below, and is an 
excellent stand for a' gentleman, merchant or tav- 
ern-keeper. Enquire of William Prince, at Flush- 
ing landing. 

1774', April 11. — The case long depending iu 
Chancery between Mr. Bloomer, Rector of Grace 
Church, Jamaica, and Ilinchman and Edsall, 
Church AYardens, (who refused to pay his salary) 
was decided by Governor Tryon, the Chancellor, 
in favor of the former, each party to pay their own 
costs. The Governor's lady, Mrs. Tryon, before 
her departure for London, gave the costs (£80) to 
the losing party, to alleviate their misfortune. 

1774, April 25.— Last week the house of Wil- 
liams Seaman, near Jerico, was consumed with all 
its furniture. JLs. S. was so badly burnt that she 
died in consequence.^-oY. Y. Mercury. 

1774, ]\ilay 2.^ Wanted, a master to take charge 
of the Grammar-school, at Newtown. Any person 
properly qualified and well recommended, will 
meet encouragement. Apply, to Mr. Benjamin 
Moore. 

1774, Maij 3.— By Act of Assembly, two Fairs 
for Queens County are to bo held at Jamaica, ou 
the first Tuesday iu May and third, iu October; 
each to continue four days. 



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To John Rapelyc, Esq., of Jamaica, Governor 

and .Supcriuteudeut of the Fairs to Le held in 

said towu. 

The humble address of the inhabitants of said 
town. 

Wc, the inhabitants of said town, beg leave to 
approach yourM-orship with hcarts_rpj)k'tc with .sin- 
cere joj' and paticfaction ; and at the same time to 
conirratulatc you on your appointment as Governor 
of said Fairs, a station (tliongli inferior to your 
abilities) }-et wc really hope may be an introduc- 
tion to one more important ; as we are fully con- 
vinced of your being; ado (juate to a more anluons 
task ; and are fully desirous and will, as much as 
in us lies, promote your interest in every respect. 

Please to accept this tribute of our good wishes, 
and believe us to be, with real sincerity of hearts, 
your well wishers and sincere friends. Signed, by 
order, RoiJEHT HuooiCS, Clcrl. 

Dated at Jamaica, this Ith day of May, 1774. 

Gentlemen : With a heart overflowing with gra- 
titude, I return you my sincere thanks for your 
kind address and good wishes towards me ; and 
hope my future conduct in the discharge of the 
.several duties incumbent on me, will alwaj's merit 
your approbation. 

I am, gentlemen, with respect, your most obliged 
and obedient servant. JOUN liAPELYE. 

Jamaica, 4tli day of M.ay, 1774. 

1774. — Neicmarlict Jlaces, May lltli — ,i sweep- 
stake of one hundred and twenty-five guineas, half 
forfeit, by horses the projierty of Hve subscribers. 
On the 12th a contribution purse of ,i".50, free for 
any horse, the best of three four-mile heats. 
Horses to be shown and entered at the starting 
post the day before running. A half Johanues 
entrance. No crossing, jostling or other foul play. 
—N.Y. Mercurij. 

1774, June 13.— -SS reward to any (piie who 
shall secure him in any of His ^Majesty's jails. 
Run away from Abraham Lawrence, Flushing, a 
negro man, (reorge, of a yellow complexion. He 
had on bulY colored, half worn velvet breeches, and 
has bushy hair which he wears tied behind, and 
commonly wc;irs Ids hat cocked. 

1774, Jtoie 1.3. — To be sold, by Joseph "Wood- 
ward, Newtown (for want of employ) a likely ne- 
gro boy, ten years old, and lias had the small 
pox. 

1774, July 4. — Joseph and John Eeade and 
Eichard Yates offer for sale the corner-lK)Use and 
lot of land of I^awrenec Keade, deceased, situate 
where four cross-roads meet, in Jamaica, and occu- 
pied as a tavern a great many years. 'I'here are 
tifteen acres, with two brick houses, one a double 
house in occupation of William lietts, tavern-keep- 
er, fifty fiM.t front ; the other, liuilt a few years 
ago, is occupied by .Joseph llobinson. There are 
two barns, garden, tiiiit trees, etc, 

1774, July 18. — Cider-vinegar, or live-stock of 



any sort, for shipping, supplied at rpa.'onable rates 
by William Kcese, who goes in the Flushing pas- 
sage boat, twice a week, and may be spoken with 
every 'I'uesday and Friday, at Beekuian Slip, 
New York,* 

1774, Jidy 18. — The grammar-school, at New- 
town, is still continued liy a young gentleman who 
comes well rcconiminded, ^fr. Charles DuiVee, who 
will prepare pupils fur college in an easy and expe- 
ditious m.annor, and will take equal care of their 
morals and tuition. Boaixling on the sjiot in gen- 
teel families. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1774. — On Sunday, August 14th, Lambert 
!Moore, Esq., Comptroller of His 5Lajesty's Cus- 
toms for the port of New York, was married to the 
agreeable Miss Gertrude, daughter of Mr. Hendrick 
' MidiTdonk, of Hempstead Harbor. — N. Y. Mer- 
cury. 

1774. Oct. 13. — New :\rarket Kaces. £20 
Purse to be run for by three or four year old hors- 
es, (full-bloods excepted) the best of three two-mile 
heats, to win. 20s. entrance. Certificates from 
the breeders to be shown. On the 14th a saddle 
to be run for by horses five years old or upwards. 
The three heats to be one mile each. 5s. entrance. 
No horse to run that has ever started for the value 
of oOs. 

1774, Dec. 5. — Last Thursday evening as Mr. 
Lrdve Eldert was going home in his wagon from 
Brooklj'n, .a mile from the Ferry, he was met with 
by Daniel Everett, on horseback, and before they 
coidd get out of the way of each other, the wagon- 
tongue ran into Mr. Everett's body, of which 
wound he died immediately. 

177.5, Teh. 20. — Two Luis, one named Hamilton, 
aged sixteen, and the other Roberts, aged twelve, 
were racing with their wag(jii and horses at New- 
town, when b\' a Jolt ihey both fell out, and, being 
run over, were killed. — Gainc's Mercury. 

Ill a, March G. — Several of the negroes at Ja- 
maica, we hear, were last week committed to the 
jail there for a conspiracy to destroy the whites. 
.Most of th(^ slaves for many miles around, 'tis said, 
are concerned in this plot.f — X. Y. Mercury. 

1775, May 17th, was observed as a day of Fast- 
ing and I'rayer by the congregations of the Re- 
formed I'rotestant Dutch churches, in this and the 
Province of New Jersey. — A\ Y. Journal. 

177."), May 19. — Thomas Smith, John Hewlett 
aiul John Townsend, Justices, of ( )ysterbay, hear- 
ing of anonymous advertisements hiring set up to 
notify the people to appear at Jamaica, the 22d 
inst., to choose Deputies to form a Convention to 
carry the Resolves of the Continental Congress in- 
to execution, take this method to perpetuate to 

Moliii Yates was C'a])tain of tlie other Fliufiing I5oaf.— 

tTliis ])VOVoJl a false report, l>ut it shows bow rcaily the 
masters wore to sus]ieit their slaves. — AV. 



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posterity, that they pay uo regard to any "matter 
contrary to the sacred oath they have takea to 
keep tlie peace of the 'couuty, as far as they are 
able. — Town Becords. 

1775. — Thursday, July SOth, -by recommenda- 
tiou of the CoiitiuentaJ •Oongi-ess, was observed 
with the utmost solemnity, Ijy OFasting, Abstinence, 
and Devotion. In all the churclies were large 
congregations, and cscellent discourses delivered 
from the several pulpits, e'spressive of the truly ca- 
lamitous situation of this unhappy 'Continent, — N. 
Y. Journal. 

1775, Oct 16.— .Jacob Duryee and Albert Ter- 
huuen. Executors, ofi'er for sale the homestead of 
Jost Duryea, near Old Neck, at Jamaica South, 
containing seventy two acres, on which is a grist- 
mill of one pair of stones, mill-house, bolting-house. 
Also a fine healthy negro boy ten years old. 

177.5, Nov.. 30. — To be sold, a house and lot of 
laud of live acres, with barn and good bearing ap- 
ple orchard, in the most po,j)ulous part of tilie town 
of Oysterbay, opposite the Church, and half a mile 
from the landing, where boats attend weekl}- from 
New York — convenient for a merchant, mechanic 
or tavern. Apply ■to Beiyamin Underbill, New 
York, or Silvanus Townsend, Cedar Swamp. 

IN PEOVINCIAL CONGRESS. 

New York, Dec. 12, 1775. 
Whereas, this CougTcss has received undoubted 
information, that a number of disaffected pwsons 
in Queen's County, have been supplied with arms 
and ammunition, from on board the Asia ship of 
war, and are arraying themselves in military man- 
ner to oppose the measures taking Tjy the United 
Colonies, for the defence of their just rights and 
privileges Ordered that, of 

Hempstead Totcnsh'q). 
Just. GObert Van Wyck, 
Daniel Kissaua, Esq., 

Cowneck, J 

Captain Jacob Mott, 
*Thos. Cornell, of Eock- 

away, 
Gabritj -Ci. Ludlow, 
*Ivichard ITewlet, 
Captain Charles Hicks, 
Doctor Samuel ]\Iartin, ■ 
Justice Samuel Clowes. 

Oyster Bay. 
J-nstice Tho. Smith, Hog 

Island. 
*Justice John Hewlet, 
Captain George Weeks, 
Doctor David Brooks, 
Justice John Townsend. 
being charged as principal men a-mong the disaf- 
fected in said county, do attend this Congress, at 
ten o'clock, Tuesday morning next, the 19th insf., 
to give satisfaction to this Congress in the premi- 
ses, and that they ibe protected froiai any injury or 



Jamaica Township. 

Captain Benjamin White- 
head, 
*Charles Ardin, 
Joseph French, Esq., 
Johannes PoUiemus, 

Neiotown. 

Nath. Moore, 
*John IMoore, senior, 
Captain Samuel Ilallet, 
*John Moore, junior,' 
Willi.'im Wcyman, 
Captain John Shoals, 
Jeromus Eapalye. 

Flusliing Township 
*John Willet. 



insult during their coming to and returning from 

this Congress, 

177G, Jan. 3, — A majority of the inhabitants of 

Queens County having deserted tlic American 
cause, the Continental -Congress ordered Colonel 
Heard t« 4ake six hundred minute men and three 
hundred regulars and proceed to Queens Couuty 
and disaiin every person who voted against send- 
ing Deputies to the Provincial Congress, and ap- 
prehend the twenty-six principal persons named 
above. Accordingly XI!olouel Heard scoured the 
county, imposed a test oath on four hiiudred and 
seventy-one delinquents, disarmed three hundred 
and forty-nine otncrs, and carried off nearly one 
thoMsand Tnuskets, some powder and lead, and 
nineteen of the principal disaft'eeted persons, seven 
(to whose names a star is prefixed) having fled 
from their homes. These persons were subse- 
queutly discharged on giving Ijonds for their 
peaceable deportment. 

177G, Jan. 8. — To be sold at vendue, the farm 
of Dr. John Innis, deceased, aljout two miles west 
of Jamaica, on both sides of the road leading to 
New Y-erk ferry. It consists of about two hundred 
acres in a healthy dry situation, exceedingly natu- 
ral for wheat, Indian corn and pasture. On it are 
three orehards — ji^i"' grafted with the finest fruit 
that could 1)6 procured — Ne^^•town pippins in 
abundance, golden pippins, golden russetings, 
spitzenberghs, bow-apples, adamites, etc. Pears, 
peaches, plums, Jladeira-nut and black-walnut 
tree^, in great plenty, two dwelling-houses, corn- 
cribs, fowl-house, smoke-house and Louse 'of ofiice, 
a large garden, with gravel walks, a quarter of 
which yields as fine asparagus as any in the 
Province. Peter and James Innes, Executors, 
living on the premises will give a good title. 

N. B. — About two miles due north-west from 
the to"?™ of Hempstead, sixty-five acress of as 
good land as any belonging to the great Plains, 
every corner of which has a stone marked with the 
mitial letter of lay name 1*1. The land was sur- 
veyed and recorded by Justice Smith, near West- 
bury. 

1776, Jan. 22. — To be let, by James Way, tho 
tenement that Jacob Ilallet now lives on, at New- 
. town landing ; also a large pettiauger. The place 
is convenient for business : First, for carrying pas- 
sengers to New York ; second, for a butcher; 
third, for a dry -goods store ; foiu'th, for marketing ; 
fifth, for buying and selling country produce for 
the city ; sixth, for a house of entertainment. Al- 
so, another house within twenty rods of said land- 
ing pleasantly situated for a gentleman's country 
seat, A variety of fish, oysters and crabs may be 
caught in the season, within a quarter of a mile of 
the house. Also, several other tenements to let, 
within a mile of said laudiu"'. 

o 

1776, March 21. — Last Thursday night, at 
twelve o'clock, the house of James Hughston, 
merchant, at Jamaica, was biu'ut. The family 



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were in bed at tin' time, auil notliing was saved 
but two bed:*, a desk, chest and trunk. The con- 
tenta of his store, consistuif; of West India and 
dry goods and ^£100 in bilfs, were entirely con- 
sumed. Loss, .£2,000 or .£3.000.— Holt's N. Y. 
Journal. 

In Committee for the district of Cow Xcck, etc., 
March 27th, 1776 : — AVhcrcas, sundry disaffected 
persons have moved into this ncighborliood, where- 
W the district instead of an asylum for the good 
and virtuous, is become a nest to those noxious 
vermin ; it has become the part of prudence?, and 
in its effects, of necessity, to put an end to such 
proceedings for the futun-, by the most speedy and 
effectual measures for the public good. He it 
theretbrc licsolfCil, That no manner of jierson pre- 
sume to move into this District after the first of 
April, without a certificate from, the Chainnau of 
tlic Committee of the District whence he removed, 
that he is friendly to the cause of his bleeding 
country. l?y order, 

Bexj'N. Bakds, Chairman. 

A Card. — An inhabitant of Cow Neck presents 
his respect I 111 compliments to 'Mr. Sands, Chairman 
of the Coiumitlee, and begs lie will rectify an 
omission he has been guilty of, by not mentioning 
the names at large of those disaffected persons 
whom he styles " noxious vermin," in the Com- 
mittee's Resolve published last wxek. — N. Y. 
Packet, Ajiril Uh, 177G. 

To the Printer. — In Committee for the District 
of Cow Neck, &c., April 8th, 1776 :— SlR : 
Whereas a Card has lately made its appearance in 
your paper requesting the names of those disaffect- 
ed persons called "noxious vermin," in the C<iin- 
niittec's llcsolve of 27th IMarch lust. Although it 
is inex|)edient to comply with this reqiu'St, yet if 
the anonymous author applies to this Committee, 
he shall have satisfaction with regard to himsplf. 
liy order, TjEXJ'N. SAN1>H, Cluiirnmn. 

1776, Ajyril 13. — To the Provineial Congress, 
New Yorlc : — We, flu; subscribers, inhabitants 
of Jamaica, have lately been jihiiulend of our 
cuttle and effects by order of Captain Epliraim 
liailev, for not appearing in arms at military drill 
to answer to our names, when it is known we have 
been deprivctl of them by Colonel Heard. A\^e 
therefore pray that you will give iw .such relief, as 
you may think necessary. 

Nathaniel :\Iills, .Joseph Oldfield, 

Jabez Woodruff, Samuiil 3Iills, 

.Joshua !Mills, .Tohn Itemseij, 

John Lambertson, Dirck Hergcn, 
Nicholas Ludlani, I'eter :Mills, 

Abraham Colyor, Jacob Dean. 

177G, June .0. — The Provincial Congress re- 
solved that. Whereas, a hostile armament is ex- 
pected here, the following persons in (Jueens 
County be brought before a committee of this body 
to show cause why they should be coiwidered 
friends to the American cause, viz ; 



Dr. Charles Arden,f 
David IJrooks.J. 
David Iiealty,+ 
David Colden.| 
llichard ('olden.t. 
Samuel Doughty,! 
(Jeorge Fi)!liot,| 



.Joseph Beagle,* 
John liowdin,* 
Sanuiel Clowes.J 
.John Chave,* 
'J'liomas Cornwell,' 
Isaac Denton,* 
'J'lioma-' Ilicks,t 



Archibald llamilton.t liichard Hewlett,* 
AVhitehead llicks,j Stephen Hewlett,* 



Charles IIicks,t 
Samuel Hallet.t 
Daniel Kissam.J 
(iabriel G. Ludlow,! 
Benjauun I^ester.f 
Samuel ^lartin.J 
John I'olhemus,} 
.John Shosils4 
(iilliert Van Wyck,! 
John AVillet,! 



Jnhn Hewlett,* 
Thomas Jonps,f 
Jolni Kendal,* 
(Jeorge D. Ludlow,| 
Nathaniel Moere,J 
.John Moore, senior,t 
'J'homas Smith, 1^ 
.John Town?=end.t 
Benjamin Whitehead, t 
'William Weyman.t§ 



a descriptive list, to (ieneral 
and John Ilutehings, from Ja- 



1776; June 9. — Some of the disaffected i)Oople 
of Hempstead having armed and hid themselves in 
a swamp, a-t the liead, of what was then, Demott's 
mill-pond, Gfen. Green, corainanding on Long Is- 
land, sent a party of soldiers there who, after a 
skirmish; ;a-rested the following persons and deliv- 
ered them, with 
Greene : 

.Joseph Dorlon 
mat ca jail. 

.Tohn Carman, lie received powder and ab- 
sconded in the woods. 

Andrew Allen. A disaffected person, taken in 
the woods. 

.Jacob Lambertson. Found with his gun charged. 

Benjamin I'ettit. H(! was in the swamp, in the 
fight, and had powder from the Asia, man-of-war. 

Kzekiel Rainer. In the woods, hid. 

Richard Smith. In the swamp battle, and had 
powder from the Asia. 

.Jeremiah ]5edel. A di.s.affected person. 

])nniel Smith. In the swamp battle. 

Elijah Rainer. Hid in the swamp. 

.Joseph Bedle. Same— a disafteeted person. 

Nathan Smith. Received powdi'rfr.im the Asia, 
abscnmded in the woods, and appears to know 
much of the scheme. 

Townsend Weeks. A d — d rascal and the 
greatest Tory. 

William MbConn, Thomas Fleet, Peter Wheel- 
er, Samuel Townsend, and..J<ilin Fleet, declared 
thev would sooner fight for the King than the Con- 
gress, and totall}' deny the authority "f that body. 

James Cogswell. A gun-stealer or informer, 
from Newport. 

"To lie aiTostod, as inimical to tlip .\nirrican f.iuse, wbo 
prob.'ilily would not ajipear, but secrete tbcmselves. 

tTo be sumnioneil bil'nre Congros."!. 

JlloUlini; otiice from tlie King of Great Britain, and to 
bo suninioni'd or arrested. 

^Ur «as from 'Wcstilicstor, and bad been pnt in jirison, 
in X<'w York, for Roing on board the Asia, man-of-war, and 
sliipping a load of pork for the Britisli nrmy. 



IN OLDEN- TIMES. 



61 



Henry Durland said Wasliington was more eon- 
cerned in the conspiracy* than any one. 

1776, Ma/j 28. — Tliere was an Academy at 
Newtown wlioro Thomas Walton, Mr. Lc lloy, 
Thomas Wliite, Mr. JlathewS, and otlicr Loyalists, 
of New York, scut about seventeen boys. Some 
of those boarded with Sir. .John Moore, Jr., and, 
on a Fast day, they got of a lad named Moore, 
from New York, a large flag in imitation of the 
King's standard, which they hoisted ou a high 
pole in Mr. Moore's door-yard. For allowing this 
insnlt to the AYhigs of Newtown, Mr. Moore was 
arrested and detained a prisoner on parole in New 
York. The Committee of Newtown received the 
thanks of Congress for their vigilance.— J<9Mr., 
4C4. 

1776, June 21. — Tlie following li^t of fourteen 
disaffected persons at .Jamaica, was scut to the 
Provincial Congress : 

1. Dr. Charles Arden. lie was the person vrho 
iustigated the Tories to sign against having a 
Congress or a Committee. lie also wrote the afli- 
davit of Eulef Dnryca about Parson Ketcltas, and 
carried Justice French to Duryea's for that pm'- 
pose. , 

The witnesses are Bcnjarnin Smith, son of Sarouel ; Rob- 
art Hinchman ; Thomas Smith, sou of Tliomas, whom he 
thrc.nteued to hang if lie wonkl not sign a paper, and Isaac 
Loiferts, who bought Widow Betts' farm. 

2. Captain Benjamin Whitehead, late Supeiwi- 
sor, who repeatedly refused to communicate to the 
town of Jamaica certain letters that he had re- 
ceived from the General Committee of New York, 
requesting the town to be called together to elect 
members of a Committee or Congress. 

The witness of this is Waters Smitli, or either of the per- 
sons above named, or Captain Jacob Wright. 

3. Alexander Wallace, merchant, of New York, 
but now resides at Jamaica, in Waters Smith's 
house. 

4. George Bethune, formerlj- of Boston, now at 
Jamaica. He maintains an intimacy with Benja- 
min Whitehead and Dr. Arden. 

5. Martin, from Antigua. He dwells in 

Obadiah Mills' house, opposite the ]\reeting-housc, 
at a high rent, lie associates chiefly with James 
Depej-stcr. 

G. Charles McEvers. He resides in John 
Troup's house — v.-as formerly a Stamp-officer. 

7 and S. Thomas and Fleming Colgan fre- 
quently go to Creed's hill to look out for the Brit- 
ish fleet. The two Duubars, John William Liv- 
ingston, Ji-., and one of the Colgans were there 
lately looking out for a fleet. 

10 and 11. John and William Dimbar shut 
themselves up and refuse to train, or pay their 
fines. 

12. George Folliot, merchant 



pay 

from New York. 



•Referring to a plot, got up by Governor Tryon, to poison 
Washington and burn New York. 



lie lives with Jaqucs Johnson at Fresh Meadows, 
about one and a half miles from Jamaica. 

13. Thcophilact Bache, of Flatbusli. He comes 
to Jamaica to Alexander Wallace's. 

14. James Depeyster. He lives next to Wil- 
liam Betts'. He is said to be a dangerous Tory. 
His son has been pursued several times, but can't 
be taken. 

In Committee, Queens Counfi/, Jidij 1, 177G. — 
The Committee took into consideration a resolve 
of the Convention of the State of New York, rela- 
tive to removing cattle from the south side of this 
county ; and as many difficulties appear, they ap- 
pointed Colonel Kemsen, Colonel Robinson and 
Samuel Biker to make a representation thereof to 
the Convention and general officers of the Conti- 
nental army, and of the defenceless state of this 
count}', and request such a force as shall be able, 
with the assistance of the County Militia, to pre- 
vent our being plundered by the Ministerial troops ; 
and also to apply for ,€200 for the use of this 
county. 

1776, July 21. — George Townscnd, Chairman 
of Queens County, sends to Congress a copy of 
Howe's Declaration, which had been posted in the 
several towns, by Thomas Willctt, Sherift'. Where- 
upon his arrest was ordered, together with his 
brother Edward Willett, Edward Willctt, Sr., one 
Lawson, a schoolmaster at Flushing, who acted as 
scribe, and Thomas Ilicks, attorucy-at-law — 
Jour., 552-572. 

[This paper appears to have been conveyed 
from Governor Tryon, through the hands of Colo- 
nel Jasiah, father of Dr. Samuel M.artin, to Eliza- 
beth Hicks, a young lady of Ilockaway, who gave 
it, on a Fast d.ay, to Joslnia Mills, 'at Jamaica, 
and he took it to Sheriff" Willett, at Flushing, who 
consulted with Thomas Hicks, and by his advice 
published it. It offered pardon to all repentant 
rebels.] — J'aI. 

llia.Aiiri. 9.— One Bragaw, from Long Island, 
informs Congress that John Greenoak, Jr.," Samuel 
Bydei-, Captain Samuel Ilallet, his son Joseph, 
and his negro, went from Vanderveer's mill to Bar- 
ren Island, and thence escaped to the enemy, on 
Stateu Island. 

1776, Ami. 12.— The following disaffected per- 
sons were arrested in Queens County, by order of 
General Washington, and sent in a" boat to Nor- 
wich .and Middletown, Connecticut, where they 
gave their parole and were permitted to walk abotit 
the streets. They were allowed to go homo, De- 
cember 9th, ou giving their parole to return when 
sent for : 



David Beafty, 
Samuel liurling. 
Dr. David Brooks, 
Iiichard Belts, 
John Chave, 
Isaac Corsa, 



Charles Ilicks, 
Thomas .Jones, 
Daniel Kissam, Jr., 
Charles Nicolls, 
Adam Seabury, 
Isaac Smith, 



13 



52 



QUEENS COUXTY 



Wliitebcad Coniwcll, AVilliam Thome, 

Joscpli Griswold, Augustus Vau Home, 

Benjamin Hewlett, John Wilht, 

George Hewlett, Benjamin Whitehead, 

1776, Aug. 18. — The British fleet having ap- 
peared oft' our coast, the disaftcctcd sujiplied the 
enemy with fresh provisionf?, vegetables, etc. Some 
also tried to escape on boawl the fleet for protec- 
tion, as appcar-s by the following examination of 
gome fugitives captured on Rockaway beach, who 
intended to join the enemy — held at Widow Fo.s- 
ter's Inn, before Colonel Robinson and Captain 
Lambert Suydam, who made the capture : 

Mattliia.'s Van Brockle. Lives on the Beach. 
He says two men knocked at his door and lie let 
them in out of the rain. 

William Newton, of New York. He left for 
fear of drafting. 

Pearson Langdon. He say.s the boat is Isaac 
Denton's, and came out of 3[ott's creek. He 
wanted to keep out of the way, while men were 
drafting. 

Jonathan Smith. Jle escaped from the troop. 

Abraham Probasco. Saj's he went with ^'an 
Brockle from Jamaica yesterday afternoon, and 
knows none of the present company but Peter 
Mills. 

Dickenson. He says he belongs to Duch- 
ess County, and is a trader. He has relatives at 
Oystcrbay. He owned one of the bundles ot 
clothes. 

Peter Mills. Ho says his mother, hearing half 
the Militia was to be drafted, made him keep out 
of the way, and that he went to show Mr." Lewis 
the Beach. 

Lewis. S.ays he lives in Westchester, and 

came over to Long island for a legacy. He met 
Mills at Uncle 5Iott's, and desired to sec the 
Beach, which he had not .seen for many years. 

177G, Aug. 20.— General Greene received an 
express from Hog Island Inlet stating that five 
small British vessels bad appeared at the mouth of 
the creek with some troops on board ; and that 
two periauguas were at Oysterbay South — the 
whole supposed to be after live stock. Greene 
sent a party of horse and two hundrc.'d and twenty 
men to reconnoitre. • 

1776, Aug. 27, was apjiointed, by Congress, as 
a day of Fasting, Humiliation and I'rayer to Al- 
mighty God for imploring bis divine assistance in 
or"anizin" and establishing a form of Crovernment, 
and to supplicate his further protection iu the war 
now rasrinK throughout America.* — Jour., b5i. 



*The battle of Brooklyn took place on the same day. So 
tlip dnv may nut liajc iic©n obsen-ed. On n orevious Fast 
day, kev. "Mr. Froeligh, at J.inmicn, took iiis to.\t iViiin 
Joel 2 : '-20, " Uiit I will remove far oil' from you the north- 
ern nnny, and will drive him into a laud barren and de.'^o- 
latc." 



1776, Aug. 2S. — Sir AVilliam Erskine, the day 
after the battle of Brooklyn, was detached with 
the Seventeenth Itegiment of Light Dragoons and 
the Seventy-first Regiment of foot, in pursuit of 
General Woodlnill's cor])s of cavalry, collecte<l at 
Jamaica, which they defeated, and took WoodhuU ' 
and many prisoners. — British Mil. CakiiiUir, 1 : 
lOG. 

[General Woodhull had been ordered, by Coa- 
gress, to drive oft" the cattle and other live stock 
from tlie south and west jjarts of Long Island to- 
wards Hempstead Plains, in order to i)revent their 
falling into the hands of the enemy, who were in 
need of fresh provision.^. It was during the per- 
formance of this duty, that he was captun.'d bj' the 
Hritish, and received those wounds that terminated 
in his deatli- We give another of the various ver- 
sions of his capture. William Hunt in his biogra- 
phy of AYoodhull. page 377-S, .«ays : "He sent 
his troops four miles eastward of Jamaica, while 
he remained in the vill.igo till the afternoon, and 
dined there with "Whitehead Hicks, late Mayor of 
New York. Then, with one or two companions, he 
set out to join his troop. While at Carpenter's 
Inn, the British liorse and intantry, piloted by 
John Cornwell, a tory, appruaclied the tavern. 
The inmates Hcd and concealed themselves in a 
corn field and under the barn. WoodhuU sprang 
for his horse, under the shed, and, while unhitching 
the bridle, was taken hy a Lieutenant Huzzy, of 
the dragoons. He at once gave up his sword 
when the officer roughly bid him say ' God save 
the King,' which not doing to his satisfaction, the 
Lieutenant cut him and would have slain him, had 
it not been for Captain Oliver Delancey." What 
became of the cattle or the troop is not clear-:- 
whether the latter had a skirmish with the enemy, 
or sought safety in flight. Perhaps the cattle 
were left on the Plains, and the trofip withdrew to 
Suftblk County and were disbanded.] — i."(/. 

1776. — The Rev. Joshua Bloomer, writing from 
Jamaica, saj-s : twenty of his and Jlr. Cutting's 
congregation were carried oft" by Col. Heard, and 
that he was afterwards ordered to omit the prayers 
for the King. Rather than do which, by advice 
of his Vestry, he closed his church for five Sun- 
days. 

177G, Scjit.—'M.r. Tredwell, a IMember of Con- 
gress, who went from New Rochelle to Long Is- 
land, reports it to be healthy. Howe's Head- 
quarters were at Newtown. Seven hundred High- 
landers had marched from Flushing — jilenty of 
fresh provisions — a party of British horse had 
f'one to Suftblk County and seized Im ad, flour and 
salt, in store there. Jacob Wykuff was their chief 
pilot at Flatlands. The British are raising onfi 
thousand five hundred men on Long Island, and, 
if suflicient numbers cannot be enlisted vohintaiily, 
then they are to be drafted. Colonel I.udh^w was 
to comiu.and and Captain Dunbar and ^Ir. Woolley 
had warrants to enlist men. 



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53 



1777, ApriJ.^-Mm-i-is Hazard, wLo liad fled from 
Long Island, had leave from tbe British authorities 
to remove his three children from Newtown to 
Peekskill. — Thomas Lawrence, who also made a 
precipitate flight 'from Long Island, wished, Octo- 
ber 10, 1776, to revisit his family, at Newtown. — 
Cor. of Provincial Congress, 416, 350. 

1777, May 28. — Richard Thomas formerly lived 
on Long Island, and returned there to take care of 
his private afl'airs, when he was captured by the 
British and confined in the Provost, at New York. 

1777, Aug. 28. — Stephen Rider, of Queens 
County, was taken up there and lodged in the 
Provost prison in New York, being charged with 
not taking the benefit of the King's Proclamation 
of j)ardon. 

1777, Scjd. 1. — We have the pleasure to ac- 
quaint the people that the little town of Jamaica 
has contributed to the encouragement of tlie New- 
Corps (Fauuiug's) raised in this Province, at the 
rec|uest of Governor TrA-on, £219, delivered by 
Capt. Joseph French. — N. Y. Mercury. 
SUBSCEIBEKS' NAJIES. 



Nicholas Amberman, 
Isaac Arabernian, 
Paul Amberman, 
Derrick Amberman, 
Jobn Amberman, 
Charles Ardiug, Dr., 
George Bates, 
Daniel Baylis, 
Ephraim Baylis, 
Isaac Baylis, 
John Beuuet, 
CorneUiis Bennet, 
Isaac Bennet, 
DericU Bergen, 
Tunis Bergen, 
John Bergen, 
Jacob Bergen, 
Abrara Bergen, 
Johannis Bergen, 
Luke Bergen, 
Jobn Breraner, 
Capt. Richard Betts, 
Rev. Josh. Bloomer, 
Aury Boerum, 
Nathaniel Box, 
Joseph Burhng, 
Nehemiah Carpenter, 
Jacob Carpenter, 
Benjamin Carpenter, 
Jolni Charlton, Dr., 
Abraham Collier, 
Sanniel Comwell, 
William Comwell, 
Tunis Covert, 
Cornelius Creed, 
William Creed, Jr., 
Benjamin Creed, 
Jacob Deane, 
Timothy Denton, 
Amos Denton, Jr., 
Garret Ditmars, 
Mary, widow of Dow 

Ditmars, 
John Ditmars, 
Isaac Ditmars, 
Abram Ditmars, 
Dow Ditmars, 



8 
8 

16 

8 

17.4 



Dow Ditmars, .Jr., 
Samuel Doughty, Sr. 
Samuel Doughty, 
John Doughty, 
Jolm] Dunbar, 
John Duryea, Jr., 
Rulef Duryea, 
Garret Dorlaud, 
iSamuel Eldert, 
Hendrick Eldert, 
Luke Eldert, 
Hendrick Emmons, 
Daniel Everitt, 
Nicholas Everitt, 
Benjamin Everitt, 
James Everitt, 
George Folliot, N. Y. 
William Forbus, 
Jonas Frederick, 
Joseph Freneli, Esq. 
Thomas Furman, 
John Glene, 
William Golder, 
Joseph Golder, 
Ca]it. Thos. Han-iot, 
Isaac HendricksoB, 
Bern'd. Hendrickson 
Wni. HendricJtson 
Hend'k Hendrickson 
Alu-am Hendrick.son, 
Wbiteh'd. Hicks, Esq 
Thomas Higbie, 
Stephen Higbie, 
Daniel Higbie, 
Henry Higbie, 
Nathaniel Higbie, 
Obadiah Hinchman, 
Jolm Hinchm?n, 
Robart Hinchman, 
Martin Johnson, 
Nicholas Jones, 
Bernard. Laniberson, 
John Lamberson 
Cornelius Lamberson 
David Lamberson, 
Tunis Lamberson, 
Waters Lamberson, 



£ 


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4 




16 




10 




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8 




16 




16 




16 


1 


4 


1 


17,4 


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12 




16 




16 




16 


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8 


10 






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12 


10 






8 










16 




8 


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Nicholas Lamberson, 
Simon Lamberson, 
Isaac Letlerts, 
Agnes, wife of Isaac 

Lofferts, 
William Lewis, 
John Livingston, 
John Losec, 
Cornelius Losee, 
iStephen Lott, 
John H. Lott, 
Abram Lott, 
Richard Lo.xham, 
William Ludlum 
Daniel Ludlum, 
Capt. Nich. Ludlum, 
Nehemiah Ludlum, 
John Messenger, 
Charles McEvers, 
James Mills, 
Hope Mills, 
Joshua Mills, 
John Mills, 
Lsaac Mills, 
Samuel Mills, 
Nathaniel Mills, 
Peter Mills, 
John Nostrand, 
Garret Nostrand, 
Andrew Oaklev, 
Joseph Oldfield, 
Dr. Jacob Ogden, 
Isaac Pettit, 
John Pettit, 
John Polhemus, Lt. 
Aury Rcmsen, 
Jacob Remsen, 
.John Remsen, 
Rem Remsen, 
1 laniel Remsen, 
l^rias Rider, 
Bernardus Rider, 
Christopher Rider, 
John Roades, 
Richard Roades, 
Samuel Simmons, 
.John Skidmore, 
Whitehead Skidmore 
Benjamin Smith, 



Daniel Smith, 
Christopher Smith, 
John Smith (Pond), 
John Smith (flag), 
Piatt Smith, 
William Smith, 
Nathaniel Smith, 
Samuel Smith, 
Waters Smith, 
Garret Snedeker, 
Johannes Snedeker, 
Abram Snedeker, 
Rem Snedeker, 
John Snedeker, 
William Stead, 
Nathaniel Townseud 
John I. Troup, 
Daniel Tattle, 
John Van Brunt, 
Joost Van Brunt, 
Nicholas Van Dam, 
Jno. VauLiew(pond) 
John Van Liew, Sr., 
Peter Van Nostrand, 
Abm. Van Arsdale, 
Isaac Van Arsdale, 
.Johr.u's VanWicklen 
Garret Van Wicklen, 
Evert A'an Wicklen, 
Jacob Valentine, 
Jacamiah Valentine, 
George Valentine, 
William A'^alcntine, 
John Voorhies, 
Charles Welling, 
John Wm. Welling, 
William Welling, 
Sauiuel Welling, 
Thomas Welling. 
Daniel AVhitehead, 
Benjamin Whitehead 
Benjamin Wiggins, 
Thomas Wiggins, 
Henry Wiggins, 
Richard AViggius, 
Mary, widow of John 

Williamson, 
John Williamson 
Jacob Wvckolif, 



18 



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7.6 

8 



17.4 

8 
16 
10 
11.4 

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13.4 
12 



1777, Oct. 6.— Oliver Thornc is master of the 
Flushing freight and passenger boat, which lies 
near the Ferry stairs. New York. 

1777, Nov. 11. — General Pntnara sends a flag to 
General Jones, at New York, requesting him to 
give a permit to the fiimily of Thomas Mitchell, ou 
Long Island, to come out of the Briti'^h lines. 

1777, Xor. 10. — A scow sunk iu the East River, 
in crossing from Horn's Hook to Hallet's Cove, 
and three negroes, the property of Captain Hallet, 
were drowned. A white man was saved by tak- 
ing to a horse in the scow. 

1778. — Benjamin Birdsall is kept a prisoner in 
New York, by the British, as a hostage for David 
Rice. He was taken by the enemy, wiiile he was 
going, under a flag of truce, to bring off two fami- 
lies from Long Island, before January 6th. 

177S, Jan. 1.3.— Zeffs Piatt, an unfortunate 
American prisoner, was pilfered of cash, from his 
pocket, while in the British guard-house, at New- 



r,i 



QUEENS COrXTY 



iovm. Gonoral Dclaiicey ofFers two guineas re- 
ward for the detection of the thief. 

1778, Jan. 17. — Ebenezer Brown, formerly of 
Rye, wont to the enemy twelve months ago. He 
was Captain of a wood sloop, from Oystcrbay to 
Xew York, when he was captured. AViifiara 
Unckler and Eobert AYilson, of Oysterbaj-, were 
taken in a sloop, on !Monday night last. Saranel 
Birdsall (brother of Benjamin, who is in Dubois' 
Regiment,) was also taken. lie says tlie militia 
at Oysterbay, and for thirty miles east, have 
been all armed for three months past, and turn out 
on an alarm ; and some arc obliged to mount guard 
every day. All the above were taken by the 
Americans in one sloop, going to- New York. — 
Clinton Papers. 

17TS, JfarcJi 27. — Ebenezer Holmes and John 
Down, British soldiers, are tried for robbing Jos- 
eph Russel and other inhabitants of Long Island, 
and are sentenced by the Court Martial to receive 
one thousand lashes on the bare back. The Brit- 
ish Gene;-al remits five hundred lashes. — JJdan- 
cci/'s Ordcrli/ Boole. 

1TT8, May 17. — Tlie British commanding ofu- 
cer at Newtown, offers §5 reward for tlic discov- 
ery of the soldiers who robbed ilr. 'Wilkiiis' smoke- 
house, on Friday night last, of tmoked bacon and 
beef. 

1778, Jitly 24. — Was buried in the yard of 
Grace Church, Jamaica, the Ilev. AVilliani Drum- 
mond, a refugee from Connecticut. 

1778, Od. — Thomis Kelly complains that Col- 
onel Archibald Hamilton came into .a house at 
Flushing, where he was, and because he did not 
pull off hi.s h.at, he beat him with the butt-end of 
his horsewhip and cut through his hat into his 
liead ; and repeated the offence in ]>ecember. 

1778, Od. 30.— John "\Villet, of Flushing, says 
that seeing a negro driving a lo:td of rails from off 
his farm, by order of Colonel Hamilton, he asked 
the Colonel why he did so. Thereupon the Colo- 
nel got off his horse and r.an at him with a cutlass 
in one hand and a dangerous uncommon cane in 
the other, Willct defended himself with a stick, 
he nccidently found. He followed AVillet into the 
cow-yard and dropping on his knees called Cod to 
witness that he would cut to pieces any one who 
should oppose him. On the evening of the same 
da}' he cut with his sword James Jlorrel, and al- 
most killed him, and stnick AViiiet, who came to 
Jlorrel's assistance, and thrust a burning candle in 
his face, .and then ran about the room like a mad- 
man with a gun in one hand and a cutlass in the 
other, insisting that AVillet should take the gun 
and he would get another. 

Walter Dalton swears that he was, in October, 
1777, brought before Colonel Hamilton .as a pris- 
oner, (for no offence,) who knocked him down 
twice with a heavy weapon, and after sending him 
off, iiuder a guard, followed him out of his gate, 



and, on the King's high road, beat him with abou* 
thirty blows, which disabled him liom hiliur for 
eonie weeks. 

[Twelve affidavits of the above tenor, rrom the 
people of Flushing, were sent to (Jovcnior Tryon, 
wlio ordered David Colden to investigate" thi' mat- 
ter and make rejiort. The result is not known. 
Colonel Hamilton set sail for England, December 
31st, 1783.— £■(/. 

1-778, Kor. 23. — Died, on Saturday last, at Lis 
scat .at Rockaway, the Hon. Josiah ilartiii, aged 
seventy-nine. — N. Y. Mercury. 

1(78, T)nc. 25. — In a coiTespondence between 
Clinton .and Putnam, Clinton complains that the 
Whigs on Long Island suffer equally with the To- 
ries i'rom the dc;incLilions of the ('iniiirclicut 
whale boats. 

1778. — Scheme ol a J.,ottcry iior raiting tiie sum 
of £780, for the benefit of the established church 
in the parish of .Jamaica, on Nassau Island, toward 
I)urcbasing a Glebe near said parish church. 

The Lotterj- will be drawn under the inspection 
of a number of persons of character, who are ap- 
pointed for that jiurpose. 

Adventurers in the first class are desired to re- 
new their tickets witliin ten days after drawing 
each class, otherwise they will be excluded. Very 
little more than two blanks to a prize. The whole 
subject to- a deduction of tifteen per cent.* 
1st class, 2,00a ticKctU at 4s., - Sl.OOO 
2nd " 2,000 " 85., - - 2,000 

:inl " 2.000 " IGs., - 4,000 

4th " 2,000 " 2\s., - - G.OOO 

1772, Feb. 11. — The Jamaica Clnu-ch Glebe 
Lottery, third class, was drawn. The prizes were 

One of S400 

One of .... 150 

I'wo of ----- 75 
Fo\ir of ... - .10, 

Eight of - - - - - 20 
Twenty of - - - - 10 • 

Fifty of ----- 8 
Five hundred of - - - 4 

Total amount of prizes in thethird class, S3,620. 

1770, P(7). 10. — Position of enemy's troops on 
Long Island. f 



No. 
.Seventeenth Dragoons, 300, 
50, 
700, 
700, 
300, 
750, 
3.50, 



New Levies, 
Grenadiers, 
Light Infantry, 

Highlanders, 
Hessian Chasseurs, 



Cantonment. 

Long Island. 

It 

Jamaica. 

Southampton. 

Bedford. 

Flushin'r. 



"William Creed's farm, of seventy acres, nearly n niilo 
westward of the village, was puri-liaseJ for a pnrsoungo, 
with the proceeds of the above Lottery.— £</. 

tWasirmffton used to say that he had liottpr information, 
liy his spies, of the situation and nunihprs of tho pneniy's 
forces ou Long Island, than in any other place. — Ed 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



55 



Hereditary, 350, 

Prince, 350, 

Siincoe's Rangers, 250, 

Ludlow's Battalion, 150, 



Brooklyn. 

Long Island. 

Lloyd's Neck. 

March 7th, 1779. 



KlNGSBRroCE, 

To Colonel HamiUon: 

Sir : — As the armed ships in the South hay are 
a sufficient security from any insult of the enemy 
on the south side of Long Island, and as the whale 
boats from the Connecticut coast are continually 
committing depredations ou the north side, the du- 
ty of the militia must be directed to that quarter. 
And, whereas, the hiring of guards has been found 
not only an indulgence to the inhabitants, but the 
most cfiectual method to protect the necessary 
posts — I do hereby order that all persons in Queens 
County do bear a proportion of the expense of such 
duty, according to the value of their estate, real or 
personal, although exempted from military duty by 
age or office. I am your ob't. servant, 

Wm. Teyon, Governor. 

Colonel Hamilton orders Jlajor Kissam to put 
the above order in force immediately in his.district. 

Newtown, March 9, 1779. 
To Captain Israel Youngs, Cold Spring ; Jarvis Coles 
Mn^quito Core; Daniel Youngs, Oystcrhay ; Thomas 
Van ll'yck, Etisttcooih; Ahr«ham Van ll'ycli, ll'olrcr- 
hollow : 

Gentlemen : Colonel Hamilton orders that 
the troops and companies under your respective 
commands be duly warned of a general review in 
the first week in April next, the day, &c., that 
may be fixed on, you will be timely informed of 
As they have long since been ordered to equip 
fully, it is expected they will appear so, and with 
their arms, &c., in good order, as delinquents will 
be noticed and punished for their ueglect of proper 
attention to_^ordcrs. JAMES LONG-,, 

Adj. Queens- Co. Mil. 

1779, Ajn-il IG. — Hcturn of Capfain Yoimgs' 
Troop of Horse : — Israel Youngs, C^aptain ; Eldred 
Van Wyck, Corporal ; Townsend Ilewlett, Lieu- 
tenant ; William McCoun, Quarterm.aster ; Philip 
Youngs, Clerk ; John Walters, Sergeant ; Peun 
Weeks, Sergeant ; Van Acly Eoben, Sergeant ; 
AVilliam Wright, Sergeant. 

Privates. — Benjamin Birdsall, Isaac Burr, rob- 
bed by rebels, uo arms, Samuel Birdsall, Daniel 
Cock, Zebulon Doty, Geoi-ge Dnryea, Eulkert 
Duryea, Stephen Hendricksou, William Hopkins, 
John Hawkshurst, miller, John Jones, Daniel 
Latten, Adam Lcflord, James Lcftbrd, Titus Lcf- 
ford, James Place, Tlioin.as Place, Isaac Robinson, 
Isaac Smith, Daniel Van Velser, Nathaniel Weeks, 
Isaac Wood, John Williams, John Wright, Lem- 
uel Weeks. 

1779, April 17. — One Guinea Reward is offered 
by John Deacon for the apprehension of a mulatto 
gu-1 Isabella, ^vho ran away from Jacobus Lint, at 
Newtown, in man's clothes. 

1779, May 20.— Gov. Clinton, at Pokeepsie, 



writes that Benjamin Sands, late of Cow Neck for 
his attachment to the American cause was tried by 
the enemies' court martial, and banished, with 
marks of ignominy, without their lines. He 
(Sands) desires to obtain his family and effects 
thence, to be exchanged for Samuel Mabbet, of 
New York. 

[Benjamin Sands was Chairman of the Whig Committee 
of Cow Neck, Great Neck, &c., at the outbreak of the 
Revolution. As soon as the enemy got podsessiou of the 
Island, they imprisoned him and made free with his prop- 
erty. He has left the following statement of his losses : 

An Inventory (made Oct. 27) of stock taken from Ben- 
jamin Sands, on Monday, September 16, 1776, by Captain 
WiUiams, and said te be by order of Col Rogers : 

d. 
Two oxen, . . - 
One cow, . - - 
One bull and 2 heifers, - 
Two yearliuo-j^, - 
One horse. - - - 
Tiiken by a party of Light-horse, October 14th, 

two mares, - . - - 
The hire of two men as a bounty, 
Board in jail from September 23d, to October 5th, 
Board in getting men, . - - - . 
The Ordinary expenses (suppose), - - - 
Cash pluudoi-ed by a party of said Company, - 
Two pocket-books, . _ _ . - 

A jacket, -- 

Provisions and sundries, - . . _ 

Plundered from George, cash, (suppose) - 

Two jackets, - 

One calf's skin, --.-... 

Sundries (suppose), 

George's stock, --.-.-. 
Caty's cow, - - - - - -- _. 



£ 


s. 


14 




6 




12 




4 


10 


10 




28 




28 


8 




19 




11 


2 




2 


6 




10 




16 


5 




12 




1 


]0 




10 


2 




29 




4 


10 



Total, - 
One cow left. 



£162,5,2 



Mr. Sands, to obtain release from his imprisonment, 
probably took the oath of allegiance to the British crown ; 
but, perhaps, having loyalty on his ]i]is but rebellion in his 
heart he was, for some cause not now known, exiled by the 
enemy from the Island, Jan. 17th, 1779, when he carried 
with him £8,0,8, in coin, and £150 in paper, equal to £15 
in s]iecie. At length, we may suppose, he made his peace 
with theenemy, was allowed to return home, and settled 
quietly down ou his farm at Sands Point ; and by selling 
the produce of his farm to the British, accumulated large 
sums of gold and silver, which, for fear of being robbed, he 
buried in his cellar. Having occasion to take it up to invest 
in some adveutiue, he made the following memorandum of 
it: 

Taken up in the httle cellar, forty-Bve guineas, fourteen 
half-joes, .$280, five h,alf-joes, one pistole, change, 6s. 

Taken up March, 1783, £63,12. 

Taken U]) in the cellar entry, £310,6,8. 

Taken up in the tankard, £128,19. 

Taken up in the tobacco-box, £75,4. 

Total sum taken up, £838,1,8. 

Captain Sands died October 14, 1823, after a short and 
severe illness, aged eighty-nine. — Ed. 

1779, Jidi/ 3.— Captain Cornwell delivered to 
Governor Clinton the following tories, taken pris- 
oners on Long Island, viz. : William Sutton,- 
(whose sons are Whigs) Daniel Haynes and Wil- 
liam Smith. 

1779, JkJi/ 29. — Israel Youngs is allowed by 
Loring, the British Commissary of Prisoners, to be 
exchanged for Johanires Snedeker, but this not 
being done. Youngs is paroled at Poughkeepsie, 
Nov. 24th. 



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56 



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177;), Auff. 24.— Thu Rev. Henry Van Dyke is 
at Xorwalk, and wauU to go to Long iHlaud with 
his family. 

No dale. — AVliilc tlie l-!ritis<li army lay, during 
the winter, in and about New York, hay and .straw 
wort? needed for the army. The mode of gathering 
it may he inferred from : 

A li.«t of persons to be emidoycd in collecting 
hay, and to give direction!! to the Collectors of 
Forage, who ought to leave witli the i'aruiers only 
a.-* much as will be needed to suppoi't their stock 
of cattle. 

KINGS COUNTY. 

Colonel Axtell, Major Vanderbclt, of the Militia, 
Mr. Polhemus. 

QITEENS COUNTY. 

Ifcwfowti. — Capt. John Shoals,* Justice Alsop, 
Oliver AVaters, James Long. 

Flushing. — Judge Willet, Philip Piatt, Judge 
Ilicks, Talman. 

Jaiiuiica. — Justice French, Captain Betts, Cap- 
tain Ludlam. 

llcmpshiul. — Justice Clowes. 

Cow Keck. — Daniel Kissam. 

TIempsicad Plains. — Judge Ludlow. 

IIcrricLs. — Justice Smith. 

Ua.'tt Woods. — Justice llewlett, Captain Thomas 
Van AVyck. 

Wohcr Hollow. — Captain Abraham Van Wyck. 

Buelram. — Thomas Cock. 

Mitsl'cto CoiT.— John Underbill. 

Jerico — Thomas Jackson. 

Jcnisalcni.—L':i\^\:\m Seaman, llewlett. 

Fort Ned: — J udgc Jones.* 

SUTFOLK COUNTY. 

Cold Spring. — Captain Israel Youngs. 

Hitntiiiijton. — .Tohn Trelanil, Shubai'l Smith. 

Sctaiilct. — Xatliaii Woodliull, Baylcy. 

Dicks Hills. — Captain Conklin, Captain Carle. 

1779, Nov. 2.3. — Captain Mitehell's wife came 
out of the British lines to him, at I'eekskill, vnider 
a fla", with Mniur Skiduion' as the bearer of a let- 
ter. 

1779, Dec. 4.— Uriah 5[itcbell, at Xewburgh, 
petitions for a permit for the wife and children of 
Joseph Bowne, his Clerk, to come out from New 
York. 

The winter of 1779-SO was remarkably dry 
and iniitormly cold. The snow was deep and 
drifted, and llie springs low. It was called " the 
Canada winter." 

1780, Feb. 1. — Lieutenant-Colonel Birdsall is 
* serving in Colonel James Vanderlnngh's regiment. 

1780, May 22. — c£5 PiCward.—Uixn away from 
his master, David Colden, a negro named Kelso. 
He had eight days leave of absence to fmd a pur- 



•Erascd in the oripinnl, which may be seen in the Libra- 
ry of the Long Island Historical Society. 



chaser. He speaks English oulj- and wore apple- 
tree buttons on his coat. 

1780, June 30. — General SilHman reports, that 
^[rs. Hicks, of Long Island, sister to Captain 
Tom's wife, now in tiie Continental service, has 
come out of the British lines to live among the 
AVhigs. 

1780, Jid;/ 9. — A British officer, was drowned 
while bathing in Success I'ond.. A slab may be 
seen in the yard of Grace Church, Jamaica, thus 
inscribed : 

In memory of tlic many pood and ami.iWe qualities of 
C'.i|>tJiin Wiiliam Dicksun. a native of (Jla'pow, late of 
l*ort Koval, in A'irj^iiiia. incR-Ii;uit, an honest man ami a 
truly loyal suljjott. The Fmirth Company of Vulnntecrs, 
of N'fw York, umU-r liis cominanil, at his death, 9tli .July, 
1780, have placed this .stone on his pravo in testimony of 
their esteem. 

1780, Aug. 7.— The crops of wheat in most 
parts of the continent, this summer, have been ex- 
tremely thin but very well lieaded. On the whole 
not quite half the quantity they had last season. 

1780, Sfpf. 22. — ;Mabel, wife of Benjamin 
■\Yliitebead at Lloyd's Neck, is .-dlowed to go from 
the American lines to Long Isl.ind, with ber two 
young' sons. He had left his wife in poor circum- 
stances, and been four yeai-g with the British. — 
Trumbull Papers. 

1780, Sept. — John Smith asks of Gov. Trumbull 
n pass for Joseph Blaekwell, (who fled when New 
York was approached by the British) now at 
"Wortliington, to visit his aged and infirm fither, 
(who suiiercd greatly by X\\£ British) at llallett's 
Cove, and to return with Mrs. Smith. 

1780, Xov. 27.— Man-iod, at Flushing, by the 
Eev. !Mr. Bloomer, Capt;iin Jarvis Dobbs, of the 
Aim]\ Abigail, to Miss Hetty AYortman ; Captain 
Ileymen Clarke, of the Iiiduslri/, to Annatie 
Wortman ; and Captain Jlattbew Farrington, of 
the Xanei/, to I'liel]e JfeCulIum. The amiable ac- 
complisliments of the young ladies presage the 
most perfect happiness that the marriage state can 
afford. 

1781, March 21. — To be sold at vendue, at nine 
in the morning, at tlie house of ]\[r. James Duryea, 
at Fort Neck, all the stock of Tliomas Jones, Esq., 
consisting of working oxen, cows, calves, a iiinnber 
of young cattle, a parcel of horses, most of them 
young and some full blooded, a number of slieep, 
and a parcel of pigs, with all kinds of farming 
utensils and implements of husbandry.* 

1781. — ^I.ajor Fitch says: "pursuant to orders 
from Governor Trumbull, I landed on Long Island, 
.lune 30th, and made inisoner of ^lajor Kissam, his 
brother and two others, brought them to Stamford, 

•.Tnd"-o .Tones was appointed Clerk of Queens County, 
Teh. S,*!?;"!?, which oftiee he resi^rned March 13, J7HI, (ire- 
paratiiry to his de]>ailiire for Kojiland, wlieie he died, .Inly 
•j:!, 17!»"2, aged sixly.<>ne. In the wall of the ehnreh at IJox- 
bourn, is a tablet, commemorating his vu-tucs. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



57 



paroled the M;ijor for twenty days for Lim to ef- 
fect his exchange for Colonel St. John (who had 
been kept iu the Provost, in New York, on bread 
and water, and refused an exchange), but the Ma- 
jor returned without effecting any thing. The 
other prisoners were exchanged at once. The 
3Iajor then went to Wethersfield to see the Depu- 
ty Commissary of prisoners." 

1781, June. — Josepli Hallet, of Newtown, and 
Nathaniel Hazard, now living on the Main, and 
a refugee from Long Island, met at the east end of 
the Island, by mutual agreement to settle some 
private business. 

1781, Aug. 7. — Congress desires Governor 
Trumbull to revoke hia commissions to seize 
British goods in the Sound when they are exported 
into Connecticut from Long- Island. 

1781, Oct. 5.— Major Thomas Tredwell Jack- 
son, at Peckskill, petitions C4overnor Clinton for a 
permit for Via, brother to remova from Queens 
County within the American lines. 

1782, Jan. 22. — Clinton, in reply to Parson- 
Keteltas' letter, of 19 th, on his being classed to 
rai.se men for the Continental army, saj-s that min- 
isters of the gospel are not obliged to contribute to 
that service. 

1782, Jan. 26. — Thomas Lawrence, at West 
Point, a nejdiew of Captain Jonathan Lawrence, 
was obliged to fly the enemy at ]\Iorrisauia, on ac- 
count of his attachment to American liberty. Lie 
wants a flag to visit his wife. 

1782, Jan. 29. — Benjamin Birdsall, witli Edward 
TVheelei', crossed from Stamford to Lloj-d's Neck, 
where be got a permit from Colonel L^jiham to go 
to the dwelling house of John Hewlett, Esq., and 
thence to Oysterbay South, if said Hewlett will 
accompany him, and to return in ten days. Feb. 
12th, Captain Jones (South) is desired to attend 
Birdsall to Lloyd's Neck because Hewlett was 
obliged to go to New York. Feb. 19th, Birdsall 
bad permit from L'pham to take his two sous and 
some effects to Connecticut. Feb. 21st, E. Lock- 
wood, at Norwalk, received from Birdsall, c£'8,l7, 
(New York money) to be paid to Captain Church, 
commander of the flag from Lloyd's Neck. Feb. 
21st, Miss Roof and four children and Joseph 
Mabbct, landed at Norwalk, and had permit from 
Ebcnezer Lockwood to go to Duchess county. 

1782, Fclh 2.3.— Colonel Thomas Gilbert, Cap- 
tain John Cochran, Josliua Chandler, Esq., and 
Malcolm Morrison, Esq., sign an address of thanks, 
iu the name of their associates, to Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel Upham, Deputy Inspector General of Refugees 
at Lloj'd's Neck, who distributed provisions, &c., 
among the loyal refugees living thereabouts. — N. 
Y. Mercunj. 

1782, Fch. 29.— B. Birdsall, at Dover, writes to 
Clinton : " I effected a fovu- weeks' disagreeable 
journey — was sixteen days on the Island, during 
seven of which I was in camp on Lloyd's Neck. 



The fare iu the camp is hard. It is the wickedest 
place I ever met with. There was no restraint, I 
noticed every thing. The large fiirmers and trad- 
ers do well, others are worn out. There were thir- 
ty wood vessels at Huntington Harbor convoyed 
by three small privateers called the ' Lloyd's 
Neck fleet,' A tun of hay cost the King £30." 

1782, ^Mfl'. 26. — The crops of corn and wheat 
are very indifferent in many parts of the coimtrj-. 
Long Island has experienced the effects of a very 
dry summer. 

1782, Sept. 4. — Died, Tuesdaj- sennigbt, at his 
house, at Great Neck, in the eightieth year of his 
age. Colonel Benjamin Tredwell, a gentleman who 
ever supported an unblemished character and was 
remarkable for his hospitality, cheerfulness and af- 
fiibility. 

1782, Nov. 10.— Henry Allen, of Great Neck, 
swears that after ransoming his sloop for .X'160, 
he was robbed, above high-water mark, of the fol- 
lowing articles, about a year and a half ago, by 
one Samuel Lockwood, Cajitaiu of a whale-boat : 
A piece of Jane, . - . ^-£5, o 
" lining, - - - 7, 

Two bags of shot, - - - 1, 8 

Gross of shirt buttons, - - 0, 5 

Silk bandana handkerchief, - 0,12 
Pair of plush breeches, - - 2,16 

Five silver tea-spoons, - - 1,10 

Two gnus and powder, - - 1,10' 

Fourteen dollars, - - - 5,12 

Henry Allen further swears, that about two 
months ago he was robbed, above high-water mark, 
by James Brown, captain of a whale-boat, of 
black cloth for a suit of clothes, the property of 
George Hewlett, and of the following articles taken 
from the mill : 

Three and a half bushels of salt, ^€2, 2 
Barrel of pork, - - . 9,10 

A five-gallon keg of rum, - - 2,18 

A small sail, - - - ' - 0, 4 
Two deer skins, - . . 3,12 

Seventeen yards duck, - - . 2, 2 
Smoothing-irons, - - - 0,12 

A gallon-jug of molasses, and cloth and lining 
for a suit of clothes. 

1782. — List of articles belonging to Hendrick 
Onderdonk, taken out of Mr. Allen's mill. Great 
Neck, by Mr. Brown or some hands belonging to 
his whale-boat, value at a moderate computation, 
j£16: 

Seven ruffled shirts. One pair sheets, 
One cotton do.. Six pair stockings. 
One night-cap. Three cambrick stocks, 

Two pillow-cases, Four haudkerchiefs. 
Two waistcoats, 

1782. — List of Lambert Moore's articles, taken 
as above, value, £0,5 : 

Six shirts. One lb. powdered sago. 

One handkerchief. Two pair stockings. 



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One pillow-case, 
Oue uiglit-cap. 



One pair sheets, 
Some Jesuits' bark. 



1782. — Martin Schenck, Jr., swears, tliat on the 
nij];ht of Scptemher 2 Jtli, about nine o'clock, a par- 
ty of armed men, with their faces black, came to 
his il«'e!lin;;-liouse and took forcibly trom him, 
about >f()0 Xew York money, lie sujjposcd said 
party to bclon": to some Connecticut whale-boats ; 
and that, in endeavoring to escape from them, he 
was barbarously wounded.* 

17S2. — Peter Storms swears, tliat being at Jo- 
seph Pearsall's, on Cow Neck, on the night of Sep- 
tember 2Gth, a party of armed men came to the 
house and broko open tlie door and robbed I'ear- 
sall of some money, jdatc and other articles and 
threatened and abused him much. Ne.xt morning 
he tracked said armed party to and from the shore, 
and supposes they must have come by water. 

1782. — llichard Hewlett [Northside] being 
sworn, .=ays, that on the night of Sej)teraber 28th, 
a party of anued men came to Iiis house, forced it 
and robbed him of cash and clothing to the valnc 
of about £oO, and beat him much and otherwise 
abused him. 

17S2. — Emory Hewlett [Xorthside] swears, that 
on the night of September 2Sth, a party of armed 
men came to his house, forcibly entered it and 
robbed him of cash and other article.-? to the amount 
of £50 or upwards, beat him and otherwise much 
abused him. lie suspected and, from information, 
supposes said party came over in a boat from some 
part of Connecticut. A few da3's afterward I set 
out with intent to go over to Stamford to endeavor 
to recover my eifects, when I met one Obadiali 
Valentine and several others, at Caverly or Butler's 
Island, where I saw said \'aleutinc have on a coat 
which I well knew to h.ave belonged to my brother 
Richard, lie threatened to shoot mo and I believe 
he would have put lii.s threat into execution it he 
had not been prevented. I jierfectly recollect the 
faces of several men I saw there, being the same 
that robbed me. I was told their names by a per- 
son who well knew them, viz. : Joseph Sackett, 
Captain Nathaniel Sackett, John Ucvorc, Nathan- 
iel Palmer and William Riley. 

17S2. — Ebenezer Brown swears, that on Sep- 
tember 20th, in the night, sundry armed nu'n came 
to his house, forced the door and robbed him of 
casli and other articles to the value of about £3,10. 

17S2. — Jose])h Smith, .John Colder, Jr., and 
Nathaniel Lawrence, swe.ir, that on September 
3()lh, they went from P.utler's or Caverly Island 
to (Greenwich, in a boat of Avery Lewis, with six 
armcid men, of whom were Obadiali Valentine, 
Captain Josci)h ."^ackntt, Nathaniel Sackett, .John 
13evore, Natliani<l Palmer and AVilliani Riley. 
They had a handkerchief tied up with sundry 

•A'6ani Mot*, onst side of Cow Neck, was twice robbed ; 
onco of a groat deal of clotllicg. 



nankeen jackets and breeches. Valentine had on 
a red broadcloth coat turned up with blue. De- 
von* had a tine silver-mounted gun with gold 
touch. Tli'V saw three pistols with " R. II." on 
two and "E. 11." on one. The crew said they had 
been very much drove all night by refugees and 
horse. 

1782. — David Jai-vis swears, that .about eight 
o'clock on the evening of October f)lh, a ]iarty of 
armed men came to the house of .lohn IJurtis [now 
Dr. Purdy's], on Cow Neek, and demanded ;idmit- 
tance or they would break the door open. There 
upon liurtis went to the garret and fired a gun out 
of the window to alarm the neiglibors. On that 
Ihey tried to break the door down. He (.Jarvis) 
bid them bo gone, when one presented his gun at 
him which missed fire. Then Jarvis fired at ami 
wounded him. 

1782.— Charles Jlilchell afTirras, that,' on Octo- 
ber 9lh, at eiglit o'clock in the evening, he was at 
James Rurr's when a i)arly of armed men came 
into the house in a very abrupt manner and ordered 
liim and Burr's family inider guard, and demanded 
all the fire-arms to be delivered up, which was 
done by Burr. .Soon after the delivery a firing 
was heard on whicli the men left Buit's house, 
first ordering us not to rjuit the house on pain of 
death. 

[They intended to r.'>b Burr's store, (since the tan- 
yards in !Manhasset Valley) but the wounding of 
.James Brown, the ringleader, by Jarvis prevented 
the'r carrying their wicked scheme into execution. 
Brown was jv native of New York, Init had CJovcr- 
nor Trnmbull's Commission. He laj- at iStamford 
October 21st, 17S2. .John Thomjisou, late of Long 
Island, but now in Stamford, ought to be taken up. 
says Aspinwall Cornwell.] — Ed. 

1782. — Jolin Bnrtis, blacksmith, and David Jar- 
vis, his apprentice, swear, that about one o'clock 
in the morning of C)ctober 2-3tli, about twenty 
armed men came to Burtis's house, ordered the 
door opened or they would break it down, or set 
the hou.^e afire, as they were determined to have 
them dead or alive, as they had woiuided Captain 
Brown, of the other shore, who wa.? now lying on 
his death-bed. On their refusing to open the door, 
they fired several shots into the house, and one of 
them called out tn/urce the house, on which B. and 
J. rctinncd the fire aiul several shots were ex- 
changed. At the same time several of said party 
went over to James Burr's store (ten rods distant) 
when we heard considerable firing, and some time 
after the party returned with a considerable quan- 
tity of goods. AVe still kept up a fire at them and 
killed one .Stephen ^lartin, of Stratford, who had a 
commission in iiis pncket sigiu'd by John Hancock. 
By which it appeared that he connnanded an 
armed boat the Jiochcs'er. "We believe the parly 
came over from ."Stamford in two whale boats the 
evening before. After the j)arty went from liurlis's 
house we went to I'urr's store and fi.und it broke 



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59 



open, and James lying on the floor dead from a 
shot he received through the body, 

17S2. — James Hewlett [of Cow Neck] swears, 
that in the evening of October 2.7th, about ten 
o'clock, a party of ai-nied mon came to his bouse 
and broke a window, then earn© in and robbed him 
of about £400 (New York 'currency) and many 
articles of plate and clothing, and committed many 
outrages by threatening him- and snapping a piece 
at him^ to make- Ivim discover where his moneys 
were. He knew- none of them.- 

17S2.— TTilliara Jloft, .Ti-., of Great Neck says, 
that at midnight, November 9th, a number of 
armed men cama to my door and immediately 
broke- in and came to my bedside, where ice lay, 
and demanded cCoOO. We, supposing them to be 
these infernal crew of robbers, immediately g-xve up 
all the money we had in the house, <£S6 or cC40, 
but that did not satisfy them, they still demanded 
more. Wo honestly told thccxwe had no more, 
[even] if they took our lives — we had iiot a farth- 
ing more iu the house. On wliich, in a m.ost tcjii- 
fying and abusive language, they swore they would 
have laorc. On which they took my fither, Wil- 
liam, aged seventy-three, out a little distance from 
the house and then fell to • beating him with the 
breeches of their guns, till iit length they struck 
him on the hcad-.with the bpoech of a gun. Ho 
perceiving the blow coming, clapped up his hands 
on his head which saved his head from the ex- 
tremity x)f the blow.othiei-ways the Doctor judged 
it would undoubtedly have finished him. Then 
they- dragged him to the door. We then got him 
tOr thebecU They then left him. Then they took 
me and beat me till I am as black as the chimney- 
back from my shoulders to my elbows, and further 
down ; also, my sides and back. They did this 
until they had almost fiuished me, endeavoring to 
extract nmre money from me, which it was not in 
my power to give. They tinally desisted and then 
Aveat to plundering the house of clothing and bed- 
ding and sundrj- articles as nearly as we can esti- 
mate to the amount of £S0. They then solemnly 
declared they would shortly pay us another visit 
and take our lives, if they did not find a sum of 
money. Which usage has terrified us to leave 
, our-habitation with a large family in the utmost 
difScnlty. Some of -us' not having a second gar- 
ment to' put on. We can't call the names of these 
robbers though- ".ve have seca several of them sun- 
dry times. 

1782, Nov. 10. — George Elwyn swears, tluit he 
was lately taken prisoner by Eutgert Bleeker, 
captain of a whale boat, on which I gave my pa- 
role to appear soon after, at Stamford, where I 
went, accordingly, and delivered myself up to 
Colonel Campfield, when I saw said B., who en- 
quired of me whether any accident had happened 
on Long Island, and whether James Burr was 
kiHed or not. I said he was. B. then said what 
basbc£Qine)Ot Martin, whom Bnrtis or his appren- 



tice had killed ? I informed B. that Miirtin was 
buried very decently. B. informed mo that a gim- 
boat would be brought up before Burtis's house 
and blow it toutoms; or buffi it, or that he (B.) 
would burn the house of any other person on Long 
Island who slmnld-ofior to defend it. 

1782. — Nathan'el Pearsall makes oath, that on 
the night T)f- October 2.3tb, a party of armed men 
came to the house of Israel Pearsall,* and were 
breaking in when I opened the door, and they took 
away cash and other articles to the value of c€.30. 
They abused me much and flashed a pistorafm'6 
to make me discover where Israel kept his money 
— he being absent — until an plarm being made 
they went off. Soon after I saw a boat going 
away in which, I suppose they came. 

1782. — Examination of Barent Masten, Decem- 
ber .3rd, late from Long Island : " I left Beekman 
Precinct in Jul}', 1790, went to Long Island, and 
worked for farmers there ; left Long Island six 
weeks ago ; landed at Stamford and remained 
there five weeks ; joined a whale boat crew, imder 
.John Jackson, of Long- Island, consisting of John 
Thompson, of Long Island ; Townsend Hutchings, 
of Cow Neck ; and a man from Stamford ; I went 
one trip with John Devore and six men ; landed 
at Matinceock, at the house of Avery Lewis ; he 
was at home ; we got lirpior ; there was no plund- 
ering." 

17S2, Dec. 1.- — Tlie whale boat expeditions from 
Connecticut across the Sound to Long Island, had 
now (somewhat like our modern guerilla warfare) 
degenerated into a downright robbery of friend 
and foe, without distinction. The Whigs, in what 
is now called North Hempstead, collected all the 
evidei.ce they could of these outr.ages and forward- 
ed the pr.'ceding depositions to Governor Clinton, 
by Co ouei John Sands. This put a check to the 
career of^ many an outlaw. Here follow some of 
their names. — Ed. : 

Eutger Blcecker. He robbed and hung Eichaid 
Thorn. r ■' 

James Brown's crew, now living at Stamford, 
but lately from Cow Neck— all refugees, viz. : 
William Eoe, Barent Masten, 

John .Jackson, John Devore, 

John Thompson, Towusend Hutchings. 

James Bentlej-, a refugee, at Stamford. He 
and Valentine Eider robbed Samuel Seaman and 
Luke Fleet.- 

Jabez Ferris, a refugee, Benjamin Howell, Na- 
thaniel Sacket, of Bedford, Obadiah Valentine, 
and Patrick Stout, robbed William Cock. 

Thomas Sniffin, a refugee, and Nehemiah Lyon 
robbed Cock and Burr. John Wilkinson was 
Captain of the boat. 

James Brown was a refugee from Eye to Long 

Since Mrs. Cairns', llcnipsteaJ Ilarbur. 
tThis hanging was to torture Major Tliome into a dis- ■ 
closure of his hidden treasures. 



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I«laii(l, and now a refugee from Long Island ; a 
verj' li.id cliiiractcr — atbief and a robber. 

Kicbard Valentine, a refugee from Long Island. 

Robert Sinimous, of Westebester, A waiTani 
is isBucd for bis arrest. 

Joseph Willets, of Westbury, was robbed of oC30 
or .£10, by some soldiers, who lay at Jerieho. 
They maltreated him witli a \-icw of extorting 
more money, till his sister Sarah rushed in to avert 
the blows from her brother, saying, you will not 
strike an unaruaed woman. On his making com- 
plaint to the authorities, the soldiers were drawn 
up in two rows, and lie was ordered to walk be- 
tween and point out the robbers, but the conscien- 
tious and humane (Quaker relented and told the 
officers he could not identify them with suflieieut 
accuracy to have them punished. So thcv were 
let off.* 

During the latter part of tlie Revolutionary war 
a party of men and women sailed out fmm the 
head of Cow Bay, on a .Sunday pleasure excursion 
up the Sound, in a market boat. (.)n their return, 
being heated with liquor, they became reckless 
and overloaded the small boat that was to land the 
passengers, Jt upset off the fishing rock, near 
what is now Charles II. Willet's, west side of Man- 
hasset, and thirteen persons were drowned. A man 
on shore, who saw them struggling in the water, 
supposed they were in sport. Among the lost 
were the names of Averj', Judkins and llutcbings. 
They were buried in an old burying ground, on 
land now of William Hewlett, north of his mill 
pond. 

[The following extracts are taken from an imila- 
tion antique, entitled ; " Personal Recollections of 
the American Revolution," edited under the pseu- 
don3-m of Sidney Barclaj', the real writer being Jj. 
M. I'. The scene and chief characters are mythi- 
cal, but tho bonk being a neat jiatch-work of 
" Revolutionary Incidents," is readable if not lelia- 
h\c.]— Ed. 

Robert Lester, wa activo Torj', was awakened, at mid- 
nifflit, by a loud cra.sh from an iniimnisu stone tlirowu 
ag^ainst his front door. Tlie wbalc boat nn'n ordered biin 
to dress instantly, lie was e.irricd lilind-fcild to the Har- 
bor nnd rowed over to the Main.' — Per. Ilcc. 77. 

James Parker, a farmer, was drivinp; home from market 
late in the eveninff, As he jjiwsed a lar^'c tree by the road 
side, he was hailed, but dikrogardinij the order to stop, he 
was sliot. The liorses toofi fright and ran three mile.s to 
Carpenter's inn, where they stopped under tho shed, and 
stood till morning. Tl»e goods in the wagou were uu- 
touehetl.— /'cr. Ilcc. HO. 

The Uunncrs appeared in the night around the house of 
John Kawlins, near AVisttown and were disco>ered when 
abnnt to lore<' the front door. Hawlins sunt his negro iip 
stairs to fire at the robbei'S, while he thrust a broom-stiek 
through a broken luuic of glass into a robber's face, who 
suppo.sed it to be a loaded gim, and eried for merey, when 
tliey all scampered otV, tuider tho negro's &rc. —J'tr. l!ec. 

Tbo Runners came over from tho Maimshoro to attack 

"This is one vor.ion of tho story : wc give another else- 
where. — Ed. 



the house of Stejihen Willetta, a Quaker preacher. He 
threw open the door and said : " Walk in friends and warm 
yourselves, it is chilly, this evening." He threw wwid on the 
tire, and kept talking so fluently, that the men had not time 
to say a word. He then called his ser\anl to get a good 
bn|)pej- .of bread, meat, niince-i)ie» and cideij Alley they 
had done supper he told them their beds were ready. ' They 
were so overcome by liis kindness that they were unable 
to begin their work of plunder, but excused themselves by 
saying they had some distance farther to go : and as thoy 
w alked out, thev could but ill conceal the knives and pis- 
tols they bore about them. — Per. Ktc. 128. 

Hugh Jar%i*, a Torj- from .Jersey, was hard on the peo- 
ple, especially the non-resisting Quakers. He ordered 
John Perkins to go out with his boys nnd take their .scythes 
and cut the grass ofl^ their own meadow-land, which they 
had coimted on as winter-feed for their own creatures. 
After the war this Tory became a consistent Quaker and 
ottered restitution. — Per. Itec. 151. 

Four persojii came over from the Main-land nnd sur- 
rounded the hoii.se of Iticluird AlberLson, a wealthy farm- 
er. They knocked at the duor, and he knowing it to be 
useless to resist, opened it. They demanded all his money. 
He said he had but little. Tliey swore fuiioiisly nnd rum- 
maged the drawers and closets, and even lifted up the 
hearth-stone, w hieh they knew to be a favorite hiding place 
for money. They then i)ut the bed-<ord around his neck 
and tied his hands behind him, thnalening to bang him. 
The wife and children fell on tbiir knees and begged for 
his life. ,She then offered tlwm all her silver spoons and 
$'M in money. This they rudely clutched, but violently 
demanded more, They next beg.-iu to abuse his son Wil- 
liam, aged 14. This failing to extort any more money, 
they struck at the father with their .sabres, knocking him 
down and then .standing him up and cutting )iim dreadful- 
ly, his wife meanwhile lay fainting on the lloor. This 
went on till da3--«lawn, when tlicy hft, threatening to br.m 
the house over his head. An association, of which Richard 
Tliiimpson w as leader, was formed to ride about all night, 
on horse-back, to guard the neighborhooti, twelve to go out 
at a time. — /'< r. lire. i7>'.i. 

Three men, with black ni.isks, and well armed with cut- 
lasses nnd silver-mounted pistols, entered the house of Jo- 
seph Willetts, an aged man. They told him not to be 
alarmed as they oidy wanted his ini>ney. What he gave 
did not s,itisfy their rapacity, so he reluctantly ottered them 
:i watch he hatl \vorn tifty vears. They now threatened 
him, and one let fall his cntla.s3 on his head, but as ho 
stoopexl to avoid the blow, his cheek received a dreadful 
wound. He fell and his daughter ran up to her veni rable 
parent and cried out " (")h, (jlod ! they have killed him " Tho 
villains then cut up the ch.airs, destroyed the furniture nnd 
broke the lookiog-glas.s.es, and then left, (.'omplaint was 
made to a lirilish officer at Jerico, w ho had his men drawn 
up, and Mr. Willett.s' sister recognized two of them, who 
were "picketed,"' much against the will of the injured 
Quaker.— Per. Kcc. 157, 162. 

The house of Try Willis, of Jerico, was entered by way 
of the kitchen, where a young man and w om.an were sitting 
over the lire, The robbers fired off a gun to (ditain a light. 
They th(*ai set a guard over each bed and searched in the 
cabinets and desks for money nnd valuables, w bicb they 
took to a consiilerable amount. The nn»n servant " a war- 
rior,'' attempted to nm tor his sword, but was held back. 
His money being concealed uuder a drawer escaped their 
notice." — Per. Itcc. 103. 

John Searing was observed by tlie enemy to bo carting 
pork. Counting npcm his having received the money for it 
thcv went to his house and demanded it. On refn.sing he 
was sei/.cil nnd his head placed on a block nnd a mnn stood 
over him w ilh hii axe, bringing it down every moment, as 
if to sever his licad from his body, His wife theu placed 

•.*onio of tliese narratives are taken from the lips of 
Thomas Willis, then a boy, sleeping in his tnindh-lied. 
He diw], pear Jericho, September I4th, IKH, aged ninety- 
three. 



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Gl 



all the niouf.v they had, about £40, at their feet anil rushed 
to save her liusbaud by placing her ami across his neck. — 
At the sight of the money they desisted. " Quaker John 
Searing," as he was called for distinction, was| comman- 
ded by a British officer to go with his team to the Harbor 
to cart liquor. He was in his own wagon on the road driv- 
ing, and refused the request, when a sword was brandished 
over his head. Searing said : " If thou seest any thing in 
me worthy of death, then take my life." The aiTii of the 
«fficcr fell powerless, but he can-ied Searing prisoner to the 
Colonel who had respect to his religious scruples, and dis- 
charged him. — Per Rcc. 164. 

Some roTjbers on entering the house of John Willis were 
so exasperated at tinding no tooty that they tied the hands 
of all the family behind them, a,s well as those of Jos. Dfla- 
plaine* who ivas their guest at the time. They dragged Mrs. 
Willis by the hair about the room and then left after set- 
ting fire to the house. The flames were now kindling and 
curling up the wooden jambs beside the fire-place, when a 
young" woman, Phebe Powell, by dint of powerful efforts 
loosened one of her hands and succeeded in e.xtirguishing 
the flames before releasing the rest from theu- thongs. — 
Per. Rec. 166. 

Isaac Hendrickson was tied to abe d-post and robbed. 
Samuel Skidmore, Black Stump, was shot through a 
window. 

17S2, Oct 12.— For sale, the pleasant ami lical- 
thy situated farm of Joseph Freuch, Esq.,f con- 
taining twentj'-six and a half acrei?, a quartta- of a 
mile east ot Jamaica, vm tlie main road, where the 
market wagons pass the door. The house is two 
stories high and fift3'-two feet long, with piazzas in 
front and rear. The well never tails in tlie drycst 
summer. There is a neat laid garden with a vari- 
ety of English and this country fruit, a grafted or- 
chard fourteen years old, cider-mill, barn and other 
outhouses. View the premises and agree with said 
French. Also, to be sold, the horses, £owSi hogs, 
wagons, cart and all the farming utensils and 
household furniture, a negro man, girl, and woman 
who is an excellent cook. 

178-3, Jan. 1. — Sarah Bolton Loftus, intending 
for England very soon, offers to let for three years 
(if she should live so long) the pleasant and con- 
venient house and farm at Hallet's Cove, near the 
East River, called Loftus Hall. 

1783, Feb. 8. — Samuel and Elizabeth Cornell, 
Joseph Lawrence and Jacob Suydam, Executors, 
offer for sale the valaaJJe and pleasant tarm of 
-Samuel and Comfort Cornell, lateh' deceased, three 
miles east of Flushing, on the road to the Plains, 
and a few rods from a grist-mill, containing two 
hundred acres of clear and woodland, sixteen acres 
of salt meadow, a two- story house, out-hQ^se, wood 
for fence and fuel, two orchai'ds, a well at the 
house, and a pond of standing water at the north 
and south ends of the farm. 

1783, Feb. 24.— A French Academy will be 

*Josepli Delaplaine died in Xew York, Dec. "2.5, I7S2, 
and was interred iu the Friends' burying ground, when 
David Sands delivered a suitable discourse. — Eil. 

tCaptain Freuch was one of the Loyalists \\ho thought 
it best to leave the Island. "This farm was sold in Jiiue, 
1783, to James Jarvis, merchant, of postou. It was onca 
occupied by Bishop Seabury, aftonvards by Captain Bvrnc, 
and now by Walter Nichols. — Ed. 



opened at No. 38 William Street, near the Swamp 
Church, by John Henry Hentz, who formerly 
taught the French language at Hempstead, and 
for several years since in this city. — N. Y. Mer- 
cury. 

1783, Feb. 27.— Died, at Newtown, Friday last, 
Mrs. Anne, wife of William Weynman, aged twen- 
ty-six, of a lingering disorder, a lady universally 
regretted by all her acquaintance. 

1783. — Public Auction. — To be sold, March 
21st, at twelve o'clock, (if fair weather; if not the 
next fair day) at the office of Police,* Jamaica, a 
quantity of household furniture [the property of 
George Duncan Ludlow], consisting of mahogany 
tables and chairs, beds and bedsteads, a very ele- 
gant eight-day clock, glass, china, earthen and 
pewter ware, and some plate, wdth a \-ariety of 
kitchen utensils. Also, a likely negro wench with 
her male child, and a riduig mare four years old. 

1783, March 17.— Sale, by public auction, of 
the whole stuck of Hart & Chaloncr, at their store, 
Jamaica, consisting of a good assortment of sea- 
sonable dry goods, china and earthenware, some 
groceries, etc., well worth the attention of shop- 
keepers. Also, their household furniture. Robert 
Service, Hugh Henderson aad David Knox, Trus- 
tees. 

1783, March 31. — The partnership of Cunning- 
ham, Scott & Co., Jamaica, is dissolved. All per-/ 
sons indebted will please pay Charles Cunningham, 
who will dispose of the remaining stccrk on very 
reasonable terms. 

To His Excellency George Clinton, Esq., Gover- 
nor of the State of New York : 

Hempstead Harbou, April 10th, 1783. 
We, the subscribers, being a Committee appoint- 
ed by simdry persons. of Flushing, Hempstead and 
Oysterbay, in Queens County, to congratulate 
your Excellency on the return of peace and the 
independence of the United States of America, 
and at the same time to express to your Excellen- 
cy our apprehensions of the dangerous situation wo 
shall be iu, before civil Governiscnt takes place. 
We wish to have your Excellency's advice in 
what manner we are to proceed. The election of 
a Governor for this state we are informed is ap- 
proaching, and as we think ourselves entitled to a 
voice with our fellow citizens of the State we beg 
to have your Exceljency's opinion and advice and 
the bearer, 3Ir. Andrew Ouderdorik, has directions 
to explain our intentions and wishes more at large. 
Samuel Tow^"SE^'P, 
Hexdrick Oxdekdoxk, 
Joseph Lawrence. 

1783, Axiril 14. — Joseph Burrows offers to let, 
from May 1st, a very convenient house with stable, 
barn, orchard and garden, v,-ithin a few rods of the 
church, in the centre of Newtown^ where Mr. Bou- 
ncy now lives. 

*Now Mr. John N. JJrinckerhoff's. 



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IISS, April 11. — Jolin Lewi.-', Xc-wtown l.iiiding, 
cautions all persons again.st trusting any jxwson o£ 
his family. 

17S3, April I-t.--.Janic.'? Way,* at Nrwtown 
landing:, ofFow to let the place, tliat Ht-ndric-k S. 
Lot and JouatLan llnstcil lived on Ia.<t year, con- 
taining: ten acrciJ, and salt meadow mtliin twenty 
rods of said landinjr; and anotlicr place witiiin ten 
rods of it, where Joliu Cane now live* and keeps a 
considerable store. It is well situated for a pcntlc- 
inan's coiuitry seat. Also, twenty-two acres on 
wliicli is a good lioiL<e, orchard, garden and spring 
of water one hundred and five yards from t!ie door. 
It is one and a half niih'S from said landing, and 
from Captain Uapeiye's, John Way's and the pub- 
lic road. Also, part of the place said Way lives 
on. Also, one hundred acres, with a house of five 
rooms and three fire-places, the barn not liuishcd, 
one mile from said landing with tea acres of or- 
chard. 

17S3, A2)ril 21. — At ve;;due and immediate pos- 
session given, the f.irm belonging to the late Major 
John Lynch, in Houthwoods, (formerly belonging 
to Mr. JIagey Wigan?) on the great road leading 
from Uempstead to Kockaway, consisting of sev- 
enty-six acres of arable and woodland, a good 
house, orchard, new paled-in garden and good well, 
convenient for a store or tavern. There is a grist- 
aixl saw-mill close bj-. Fish and wihl-fowl arc 
plenty within three miles. 

17S3, Ajn-il 28.— To let, from :JIay 1st, the 
large commodiou.^ dwelling-house at Jamaica, 
wliei-e ^Michael Price now keens store, with barn, 
stable and garden. A]iply to AnIIiOny Jloore, on 
the premises, or said I'rice, in Wall Street, New 
York. 

1783, 3Iai/ 12. — To let, the farm now occupied 
by Mr. John AValt^rs, within two miles from. J* 
maiea, on the main road from New York, consisting 
of one haadrud acres, a great part meadow and 
mowing ground, Imuj orchards, and wood for tv/o 
fires, with sufficient timber t;)r tlh' rej>airs of the 
farm. The house is pretty good, barn and well in 
very good order. ApjJy to C'hristoi)her .Smith 
and Gary Ludlow, near Jamaica, or U. N. Auch- 
muty, New York. 

1783, May 19. — Hou.se mid garden in Jamaica 
to let, on the Flushing road, opposite the Church, 
litcly occupied by the Widow Harris. 

1783, June 4. — Last week liis Excel'.i*«fy, 
George Clinton, Esq., was declared duly elected, 
for the tlucc .ycjirs ensuing, Covernor of New 
York. The follo>v.ing is a view of the I'oll : 

George Clinton, - - 3,r)Si ^ 

Philiji Schuyler, - - G13 > legal votes. 

Ejjliraim I'ayne, - - 520 ) ' 




N. h. — Ten precincts gave in their ballots con- 
trarv* to the forms of law, and were rejected by 
the Inspectora. The majority for Clinton in those 
precincts was proportionate to the above numbers. 
— Iiii\Giu:. . 

17SS,. Ju»e 9. — I<jhn Mott, of rx>Tig Island, 
moved to New York f<»ur ^-cars ago and kept a 
timber yard two yews. He never bore arms ex- 
cept in the militia. He sent his wan Adam and 
hor.ses into John Delaucey's woods last December, 
wlueU were citpKired by some Americans. He 
ca!U CUuton the common Cithcrof 4he State and 
prays that they may be restored. His negro cost 
him .£103, and was sold for cC15 into Couuccticut, 
horses cost SlOO and harness d.6. 

1783, June 10. — Daniel Hitclicock, (wishing to 
avoid the imputation of having been a Tory) writes 
to Governor Clinton, that he formerly resided in 
New York city, but now at Flur^liing, and was a 
soldier in Colonel Smil,h's Iiegiment in 177G. He 
had a wife in Flusliing, where he then resided, 
and so was compelled to stay in the British lines, 
where he supported his decrepit father, wlio fled . 
thither from Fiederick:?bargh. 

1783, June 9. — ^Michael Price shortly intends 
going to Europe, and will dispose .at prime cost 
of the rem.iinder of his stock at his store in Jam.ii- 
ca, by whylesalo or retail. The goods arc well 
chosen for a country store where business has been 
done two years past to a considerable amount ; it 
being the iirst stiuid for business within the liriti.sh 
lines, except New York. The large and commodi- 
ous house in which the store is kept, being rented 
for a year from May. 1, with the barn, stable and 
garden, together with the goods, is a desirable ob- 
ject for a trader. Immediate po.ssession given for 
cash or bills of exchange. 

1783, Jahj 7.— Peter J3crton,* at X\ia Qnccn'8 
Head Tavern, Newtown landing, offers for s;de his 
farm of twenty-two acrJ-j> The cultivated gri)uud 
is already sowed, pfau'/jd and maniued. The ma- 
nure in the barn yard and tlie i-ryps uiiy be had 
on .easy term.'., 'ipn giiiiJcas earnest money is iv- 
(inired. Full possession given on November .1st. 
Until which time he will pay c£10 for rent: 

1783, Jiihi 28. — If John J»c:alvin ^ylto married a 
farmi'r's daughter on Long Island, and harf not 
been heard of these three years, is ]is:ing, and will 
apply to the printer, he will hear of something to 
his advantage. AVilhiu six y'iars past lie sailed 
from Portsmouth. England, iu a mau-of-war, '.uis 
in the attack on Sullivan's L-hmd. after'Viu l^was 
in the I'hcnix, and theu iu the Hospital at New 
York, t- - 

17S3, Auff. 4. — Taken from Remsen's landing, 
south side of Long Island, a fishing boat, well 

•Captain Bcrton. niafiner, went to New Brunswick an J 
bocamc .1 .(lulge. — F.il. 

t.Joliu Dcaliiu was inirripil to Jane Berrien, of Xewtown , 
January tilli, 177«, by llie Uev. Sir. Bloomer, of Jamaica. 



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built, of wliitc oak, with D. D. imprinted in her 
bows and J. S., 1770, (the year she was made) in 
her stern. SIO reward and charges will be paid 
by Johannis Sucdikcr, at Jamaica, or Thomas 
Langdou, at Rockaway Beach. 

1783, Ah^. 18. — Captain Charles Hicks,* Far 
■ Rockawaj, offers for sale his valnaLlc farm (jf four 
hundred acres, including a fourth of Hog Island. 
There arc twenty acres of Indian corn iu great 
perfection. Also, all the stock on the plantation, 
consisting of cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, a quantity 
of wheat and rye by the bushel. Also, all sorts 
of farming and dairy utensils too tedious here to 
mDntion. A good title given. 

1753, Auff. 25.— Agent jor Small Craft's Office, 
New Yorlc. — Wanted, immediately, for the purpose 
of conveying Loyalists to Nova Scotia, a number 
of sloops, schooners, or brigs, of from -fifty to one 
hundred and twenty tons burthen. 

1783, MnrcJt 1. — To be sold or let, the pleasant 
and valuable farm of Captain Edward Allison, con- 
taiuing one hundred and thirty acres, at Foster's 
Meadow, four miles from Jamaica, on the main 
road to Hempstead. It has a large -double house 
with court yard, Dutch barn, tv.n orchards, two 
gardens, and is most commodiously situated for a 
gentleman's seat, or merchant, tradesman or tav- 
ern. I'ropasals received -by Captain Allison, f at 
Flushing. _ 

1783, Ajivil 12. — For sale or to let, and imme- 
diate possession given, a farm in Ilcrricks, sixteen 
acres of v/oodland and fourteen of cultivated land. 
It is excellently situated for a store or tavern, be- 
ing occupied in that line for twenty years past. — 
Tliere is an excellent house, outhouses, orchards, 
etc. Enqiure of John M'Intosh, on the premises. 

1783, Sept. 8. — The cold weather last week, we 
hear, has done great damage to the buckwheat, in 
many parts of the country. The Indian corn has 
also suffered. — X. Y. Mcrcu)>/. 

1783, Scpf. 20.— The fleet for Nova Scotia, of 
thirty sail, put to sea yesterday morning with a fair 
wind. — Eiv: G-az.. 

17S3, Sept. 29. — A good cook vrantcd immedi- 
ately, by Edward Barden, Jamaica, who will give 
suitable encouragement to a sober person qualilied 
for that business. . 

1783, Ott. 13.— $.5 licward and clMiycs.—T.an 
away from Isaac Corucll, NcAvtown Landing, a 
negi'o wench, aged about seventeen. Masters of 
vessels and (Jtlicrs arc cautioned against harboring 
her. 

17S3, Od. iT. — ^trajor Charles McNeil, f at Xev- 
York, a half-pay officer of the British army, re- 
quests permission of Governor Clinton to remain 

I *H3 was probably jjrep.iring fo (juit tho conntry. — Eil. 
• tHe went into oxile anil dieit .it New Bnuiswiolc. 
'. tMaJor McNoil .'Julisoiiiiently rosijej in J.imhica, nnd big 
desccndauls are yet iu Queens Cotmty. 



six months in the State of New York, as he has 
no" money iu America, Europe being - his native 
place. 

1783, Nor. 19.— David Colden, of Spring Hill, 
Flushing, writes to Governor Clinton and entreats 
his protection, ilo relies on the faith of the Unit- 
ed States, means to stay on Ids farm* and will pe- 
tition His Excellency and. the Ijcgislature for re- 
lief. 

1783, N'ov. IS. — As Colonel Archibald Hamil- 
ton, t of Flushing, has advertised his firrm for sale, 
these are to give notice to any person who shall 
pvu'chase the same that £§22, 4.S., 6d., New York 
currency, are due bj' mortgage to Henry Davies, 
Esq., late of New York. David Jones, Attorney. 

1783, Nov. 25.— Ode on the arrival of tJicir Ex- 
cellencies Gcncrcd Washington and Governor Clin- 
ton in New York, on Evacuation day : 

Tl'NE — " He Comes ! He Comes .'' 
They come ! Tliey come I the heroes come ! 
With sounding life and thundering drum, 
Tlieir ranks advance in briglit array, 
Tlie Heroes of America ! 
He cojues ! 'tis mighty WASHINGTON ! 
AVords fail to tell all he has done ; 
Our Hero, Guardian, Father, Friend ! 
His. feme o,an never, never end ; 
He comes I He comes ! 'tis CLINTON comes ; 
.Justice her ancient seat resumes. 
From shore to shore let shouts resound. 
For Justice comes ivith Freedom crowned ; 
She comes the v>'hite robed Virgin, Peace, 
And bids grim War his horrors cease ; 
Oh ! blooniirg Virgin with us stay. 
And bless, oh I bless America. 
Now Freedom has our wishes crowned. 
Let flowing goblets pass around : 
We'll driulv to Freedom's favorite son, 
Uoalth, Peace and Joy to WASHINGTON. 

1783, Dec. 2. — Samuel Towriscnd, Hendrick 
Ouderdonk, John Sands, Daniel Whitehead Kis- 
sam and Prior Townsend, in behalf of the people 
of Queens County, crave the interposition of the 
Council of State, and say, that Richard Barack, 
Joseph Alexander and Joseph Lockwood, whale- 
boat men, h.ave been apprehended and confined in 
North Hempstead, chargedwith robbery. At pres- 
ent they are guarded by Queens County Jlilitia, 
at considerable expense, there being no jail in the 
county. — Clinton Papers. 

1783. — Last Thursday, December ] 1, being ap- 
pointed by His Excellencey Governor Clinton, on 
the recommendation of Congress, as a day of pub- 
lic Thanksgiving for the final establishment of | 
American Independence and the long desired re- 
storation of civil Government iu the blessings of an 
honorable peace, was observed with the greatest 

deference to His Excellency's Proclamation. Ser- 

i i : 

■ *His faiTn was confiscated, and Mr Colden died in Eng 
land, July 10. 1784: His widow Ann, residing in Queens 
County, petitioned the Legislature, Nor. 15, 1784, for tho 
use of her husband's property, but it was not granted. — Eil. 
tCoIoucl Ilamiltou sailed for England, December 31, 
and died at Edinburgh. 179.5. His fju'm was once owned 
by John Hoogland, and afterwards by Ilemy Mitchell.— £(/. 



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montj were prcaclicd at St. Paul's by the llcv. Sir, 
Moore,* from Zecli. 8 : 10, 11, 12; at St. George's 
Cliapel l.y the Uev. Dr. Rogers, from IV. 126 : 3 ; 
and in the old Dutch Cliurcli by the Rev. Dr, Liv- 
ingston, from Jcr. 32 : .'i7-40. The congregations 
were numeroii.s in other churche.'i also, the people 
refraining from worldly laljor and recreation. — 
Miv. Qaz. 

1783, Dec. S. — Uriah JlitchcU petitions the 
Council of Appointment for leave to take posscs- 
siou of G. D. Ludlow's estate, f on such terms as 
ma^' seem good, lie had cut oft' Jlitchell's wood 
during tlic war, who liad ahandoucd his farm and 
with his family fled to the upper part of the State, 
on the evacuation of the city, in 177G. — Clinton 
Papers. 

1783, Bee. 1.5.— TJie Council of State have ap- 
pointed William Boerum, of Kings County, and 
Robert llinchman,| of (^hieens, to take chargi; of 
the public Record.s, till Clerks be duly appointed. 
—lUv. 

1783, Bee. 91. — Next Monday comes ou the 
election of .Senators and Jlerabers of Assembly, 
who are to meet in the City Hall, New York, Jan- 
uary 6 th. 

1783, Bee. 31. — For sale, that most beautiful 
place called Beaver Hall, situated at the BiNiver 
Pond, Jamaica, containing fifty acres of choice 
laud all cleared, with a good barn, an excellent 
house two-stories high, four rooms ou a lloor with 
fire places, a large hall and most commodious cel- 
lars. Enquire of the printer. 



•Bisliop Hcnjaiiiin Moore was a native of Newtown, 
where lu; taught school for a thne. In 177H, he inarricd 
Chanty t'lavUo, which hispireU tlic t'ullowiiip; rliynios : 

The pood Parsun deserves a good Clarlic; 

Sucli liai)|iiiiess had in store : 
'Twns Chiirily l)lew up the spark, 
Aud H.\'J the brigh't Hame iu one Moon. 
On the return of tlie e.\aspprated Whigs to the city, Mr. 
Moore felt shy of a])i)eariiig in jiublie for fear of insult. — 
HaTuiltou railed on liiui one nioniing and iuviti-d hiui to 
tiiUe a walk. They went arm iu arui ihruugh the most 
public places; and 'as Hamilton escorted the minister b.ick 
to his door, lie took leave, saying, "now, Mr. Moore, you 
need fear no trouble. They see you are my friend." — F.d. 
tWhin the exiled Whigs returned to their homes they 
thirsted for vengeance. It was fe.ar for their per.-ons and 
property that constrained many Loyalists to ab.-iudou their 
homes aud seek refuge in the King's Domiuiims — Ihnt King 
who had left them to their fate ! Some, however, ventured 
to remain, and by feeing able lawyers succeeded iu saving 
their proi)erty from eonliseation. "lleuee the following lines 
by an angry Jersey Whig: 

Contractors and lawyers do vow, swear and protest, 
Tliat Tories in York" (State, may live at their rest ; 
Tories' guineas will save 'em from justice aud law. 
No bold man of Committee dare on 'em lay )iaw. 
tlliuchmiui liad been a Church-Warden, at .(amaica, be- 
fore the war, aud had invested £1(1(1 of the ehurcli miMH^y, 
which was paid back to him in Continental bills, in 177(j ; 
but, in 17t<(l, the Itritish Police obliged him to pay this 
money with interest, (£120) in specie, to the l!ev. Jlr. 
Bloomer. Ou jietition of his widow, .Joanna, the Legisla- 
ture, iu 1790, refunded the amoimt.— >tsscmWy Journal. 



BiUedng Soldiers. — During the summer the 
British troops were oft' the Island in active service, 
or if a few remained lu're tliey .abode under tents ; 
but in winter they were hutted on the sunny side 
of a hill, or else distrilutted in farmer's houses. 

A British ofticer accompanied by a Justice of 
the Peace, or some j)romiiient Loyalist as a guide, 
rode around the county and, from actual inspec- 
tion decided how many .soldiers each house could 
receive, and this number wa.s chalked on the door. 
The oidy notification was : " JIadam, we h ive 
come to take a billet on your house." If a house 
liad but one fire-place, it was passed by, as the 
soldiers were not intended to form part of the fami- 
ly. A double house for the ofticers, or single 
house with a kitchen for privates, was jnst the 
thing. The soldiers were quartered in the kitch- 
en, and the inner door nailed up so that the sol- 
diers could not intrude on the household. They, 
however, often became intimate with the family 
aud sometimes intermarried. Tiie Hessians were 
more sociable than the English soldiers, and often 
made little baskets and other toys for the ciiildren, 
taught them Germ.in and amused them in various 
ways, sometimes corrupting them by their vile 
langnage and manners. The Hessians are repre- 
sented as filthy and lazy, lounging about all day 
long, smoking and sleeping, often filling up their 
rooms with cliests, liquor-casks, hammocks, bird- 
cages, guns, boots and powder-flasks. They usu- 
ally went once a month for their rations including 
spirits [sehnapps). Then for some days they 
would be noisy enough — brawls, drumming, fifing 
and dancing, card and dice playing, with a large 
fire blazing away all night long. So that it be- 
hoved the farmer to keep his big wood pile con- 
stantly replenished, or his rails and fences would 
be at once cut up by the Hessians who were pro- 
verbially handy with their hatchets. They roasted 
peas of which they made their coffee. 

Any misconduct of the soldiers might be report- 
ed to" their commanding ofticer, who usually did 
justice ; but some offences coidd not always be 
proven, such as night-stealing, damage done the 
house or to other property. 

As the soldiers received their Jiay in coin they 
were flush and jiaid liberally I'm- what they bought, 
such as vegetables, milk, or what they could not 
draw with their rations. 

These soldiers were a safi'-gnard against robbers 
and whaleboatmen. Some had their wives with 
them who acted as washer-women, and sometimes 
in meaner capacities. — Kd. 

From a perusal of the Orderly book of General 
Delaucey, it appears that he used every means to 
protect the persons and property of tlu^ inhabitants 
of Long Island from the outrages of British soldier.'. 
Tliey were not allowed to go over halt a mile from 
camp at day-time, (and for this purpose the roll was 
called several times during the day) nor leave it 
under any pretext after sundown, without a pass. 
But now and then they would slip out and rob. On 
the 11th of June, 1778, Mr. John Willet, of Flush, 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



65 



ing, was assaulted at liis owu bouse, at 11 o'clock 
at uiglit, by persons unkuowu, but supposed to be 
soldiers from baviug bayonets and red clothes, who 
threatened his life and to bum his house. The Gen- 
eral offered a reward of $10 to the person who 
should first make the discovery to ]Major Waller, 
and a like reward for the discovery of the person 
who robbed Mr. Willct, on the 9th of June, of two 
sheep, a calf and some poultry, as he is determined 
to inflict exemplary puni.shment and put a stop to 
practices so di.shouorable to the King's service. — 
Again, March 9th, 1778, Mrs. Hazard, of Newtown, 
having complained that the soldiers of the guard 
pulled do\s'u and bui'nt up her fence that was near 
the guard-house, the General at once issued an or- 
der to the officer that he should hold him answer- 
able thereafter, for any damage done the fences.— 
So too if a soldier milks the farmers' cows, ho shall 
be puni-ihed without mercy ; nor .shall he go in the 
hay-field and gather up some new-mown grass to 
make fcis bed of. Generally the farmers were hon- 
estly paid tor whatever they sold. For iustauce, 
April 23d, 1778, they were notified to call on Mr. 
Ochiltree, Deputy-Commissary of Forage, at Flush- 
ing, with proper certificates and get payment for 
their hay. — i'f?. 

So many British soldiers and refugees being 
scattered over the Island during the Revolution, 
many matrimonial alliances took place. Wc give 
a few : 

MARRIAGES BY THE REV, MR. CUTTING, HEMPSTEAD, 

1^77, JiDi. 7. — Major Joseph Greene, New York Volun- 
teers, to Ilauuali Townsend, Oy.stevljay. 

1777, Jan. 14. — Thomas Ehn.s* to Froelove EUison, 
Hempstead. 

1777, April 20.— Captain Jacob Smith, Delauecy's Bri 
gade, to M.artha Uirdsall. 

1778, Oct. 23.— Captain J. F. S. Smith to Abigail Lef- 
ferts, Hempstead. 

1779, Jan. 29. — Ichabod Smith, Lieutenant, Delancey's 
Brigade, to Susan Marvin, Hempstead. 

1779, Jan. 31 — Michael Price^t New York, merchant, to 
Helena Cornell, Hempstead. 

1779, May 11. — Captain Edward Allison, Delancey's 
Third Battalion, to Sarah Clowes, Hempstead. 

1779, Mnij n.— Captain Elijah Miles, Third Battalion of 
Delancey's Brigade, to Frances Connvell, Hempstead. 

1779, May 13. — Francis Armstrong, Refugee, to Sarah 
Luyster, Oysterbay. 

1779, Nor. 11. — Benjamin Hilton, late of Albany, attorn^ 
ey-at-law, to Susanna Greswold, Uemi)stead. 

1780, Aug. 10. — William Curtis, Volunteer in His M.njes- 
ty's New Hampshire Regiment, to Sarah Bedell, Hemp- 
stead. 

1781, March 29.— James Powell, Refugee, to Elizabeth 
Smith, Hempstead. 

I7tl, May 17.— James Hume, Second-Lieutenant in His 
Majesty's army, to Patty Remsen. Oysterbay. 

1781, ^tto-. 20. — Thomas Carpenter, Ensigu and Adju] 

*Elms w.is a paper-maker in 1775, at Hempstead Har- 
bor; and, during the war, kept tavern in New York and 
Brooklyn under the firm of Loosley & Elms. He went 
to New Brunswick, where his wife was drowned by the 
upsetting of a sailboat. 

tMr. Price, March 3d, 1787. petitioned the Legislature 
for leave to return and reside in this state. 



tant, Third Batt.iliou Delancey's Brigade, to Lncretia Qnin- 
tard, late of Connecticut, now of Suffolk County. 

1781, Sept. 14. — Thomas Cummiugs, of General Went- 
worth's Volunteers, to Widow Lucy Porter, ot Suti'olk 
County. 

1782, March 24. — Noah Selleck, Ensign, Delancey's Third 
Battalion, to Phebo Denton, Huntington. 

1782, ilf«;/ 28. — Frederick Dibble,* Refugee from Connec- 
ticut, now in Queens County, to Nancy Brush, of West 
Hills. 

1783, Fell. 28. — Josiah Burgess, Lloyd's Neck, to Widow 
Margaret Verity, Hempstead. 

1783, April 30. — Lieutenant Thomas Coffield,t North Ca- 
rolina ^^olunteers, to Slartha Carman, Hempstead. 

1783, June 16. — Lieutenant Henry Holland, Queen's 
Rangers, to Jane Bailey, spinster, Jamaica. 

1783, July 22. — Nicholas Van Hoesen, now of Queens 
County, to Jane Everitt, of Albany County. 

1783, Jnlij 24. — William Chisholm, Twenty-Third Regi- 
ment, to Ann Verity. 

]7i*3, Aug. It). — John Henry Augustus Fricke, Sixtieth 
Regimeut, to Aletliea Gildersleeve, Hempstead. 

1783, Sept. 2. — Captain John Althouse, New Y'ork Vol- 
unteers, to Jane Jackson, Jerusalem. 

1783, Sept. 8.— Lieutenant Enoch Plummer, Third Bat- 
talion, Sixtieth Regiment of British troops, to Abigail 
Batty, Hempstead. 

No licit''. — Robert Brown, Seventeenth Regimeut British 
Light Dragoons, to Mary Rhoads, Hempstead. 

MARRIAGES, MO.STLY BY THE REV. MR. BLOOMER, JA- 
MAICA. 

I77G, Dec. 17. — Lieutenaut-Colonel Thomas James to 
Margaret Depeyster. 

1777, May 4.— ^Lieutenant George Brown, to Mary 
French. 

1778, Jan. 23. — At Flushing, Beverly Robinson, Jr., 
Esq., Lieutenaut-Colonel of the Royal American Regiment, 
to the accomplishe<l Miss Nancy Barclay. 

1780, June 11.— Captain John Meredith to Gertrude 
Skinner, a young lady whose mental and personal accom- 
plishments promise the most permanent felicity. 

1782, June 9. — Charles iSaltmarsh, Sergeant, Seventieth 
Regiment, to Mary Adams, Jamaica. 

1782, Dec. 14. — Lieutenant James Smith, Seventy-ninth 
Regimeut, to Mary Dainc > of Queens County. 

1782, Dec. 14.— Peter Ball, Clerk of the Hospital, New 
York, to the amiable aud accomplished Charity Lott, of 
Flatbush. 

1783, March 16.- James M'Euen, soldier. Third Battal- 
ion, Delancey's Brigade, to .>— — Seaman, Flushing. 

1783, March 26. — .loshna Gan-et, Ensign, King's Florida 
Rangers, to widow Vashti C."rr, or Kerr, Oysterbay. 

1783, May 4. — Abraham Reade, soldier in Colonel Rob- 
inson's Regiment, to Mary Ql ay, Flushing, 

1783, Sept. 14. — Jaanes Coiter, soldier, Fifty-seventh 
Regiment, to Margaret McLean. 

1783, Nov. 3. — Thomas Martin Palmer, Lieutenant to 
Admiral Digby, to Catharine McEvers, Jamaica. 

1784, Sept. 30. — David Purdy, Ensign, King's American 
Regiment, to Mary Rapelye, Newtown. 

1785, Sept. 22. — David; Chapman, of Annapolis, Nova 
Scotia, to Elizabeth Doughty, Jamaica. 

1792, April lO.rrc^^Oja^on {i<>yt, late Lieutenant, Prince 
of Wales' Volunteers, to Lucretia Hammersly, Jam,ijca. 

Slost of the above went at the peace to New 

Brunswjfk or Nova Scotia, where many obtained 

*The Rev. Mr. Dibble became Reotor of a church in New 

Brunswick. 

ILieuten&at.Coffield h.ad to advertise for his wife,'whom 
her mother had kept concealed from him that she might 
not go with her loving husband to Nova Scotia. 



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office iindoi- the British Government, anJ tlio offi- 
cers retired on half-pay. Some account of tiicm 
may he found in Sabine's Lives of tlic Loj-alists. — 
Ed. 

1784, FcJ. 5. — Charlotte, widow of Whiteliead 
IIick<, oflfers to let his house and fanuat Flushing, 
now in tenure of John Thurman. 

17S4, Fd). IG. — Uriah Jlitcliell Is appointcj- 
Sherift", and Abraliani, -Skinner, Clerk of tjucena 
County. 

17S4, 2[arcJt 1].— :-Samucl, Melancton, Benjamin 
and Israel Smith, Executors, oiler for sale the farm 
of Samuel Smith, Esq., deceased, half a mile cast 
of Jamaicn.'eontaiuing two hundred acres. 

nSi, March 15. — Ijcnjamin Akerh' .'knd other 
inhabitants of the north side of llempslcad, petition 
the Legislature for a division of said town. 

17S4,. March 15. — John Lu\-ster and other in- 
h.abitants of Queens County petition the Lcgi.=la- 
turc for a Court House and Jail, to be erecrcd at 
flic west end of Hempstead i*lains. Joseph Rob- 
inson and others, of Jamaica and Flui'hing, pray 
that any f-Hturo Court IIou.<c may be iu Jamaica, 
at or near the old site. 

178 4, March IG,— Mr. Robert JUliarg and his 
sister j\[ar«-aret are de.=ircd to call on William 
Howard, Newtown, Executor to the estate of their 
brother, Alexander, to receive, the charge commit- 
ted to his care, which will reward them for their 
trouble. 

1784, A2)ril 16. — Richard Sands petitions for 
the excl'ij=ive right of a ferry from Cow Neck to 
Xew Rochelle. The Committee report that a well 
regulatod Ferry is necessary. 

1784, April 29. — Uriah Mitchell, Sheriff, peti- 
tions the Legisb ture for the use of G. D. Ludlow's 
house for a County .Jail, till the Court Hou^^e and 
Jail be (vccted.. Granted, provided the Sheriff 
reside there from the 1st of JIay. 

1784, M(i!/ 6. — For sale, the farm of Jacob. 
Sharpe, Jamaica, on the main road, nine miles 
from Urooklyu fcrr\', containing two hundred 
acre.:. 

1781, May 1.1. — A negro man, Frank, yellow 
complexion, aged forty five, is now at Newtown. 
He says he once belonged to Coventan Simpkins, 
Virginia. The owner, by proving property and 
applying to John S. ^Valdron, can have him again. 
—N. Y. Journal. 

17S1, May 17.— I'iui-CATIOX.— The Rev.:\[iit. 
thia^ Burnet begs leave to inform- the respectable 
public that Uci. will. undcrtnko- the in.-traction of .a 
smiU immbci ot!, youth (not exceeding, twelve or 
IburtL-en; iu the Lulin and Greek languages ; and 
to rcuderUiis plan mojc extensively usefitl, Iio has 
engigod a person to attend a part of every day to 
instruct (such as may desire it) iii writing, vulgar 
arithmetic and book-keeping. Those who aliall 



please to commit the education of their children to 
his care may d(i)end upon the strictest attention to 
their learning and morals. . 

1784.- — One guinea reward and charges. Ran 
away, Sunday, June 27*lb,. from .S'arah (widow of 
Garret) Latting, Jamaica, a likely negro boy, Tom, 
aged sixleeu,. a great talker, t.alks Eiiglisft' and 
Dutch ; pretends to be a fiddler and took one with 
him. He wore a beaver hat, brown linen jacket 
witii'sih-er buirons. He has no known mark. — 
Bill, a boy 8f same age and .size went with him. — 
Loudon's' N. Y. Packet. 

17Si, June 30. — The utility of public -advertis- 
ing will appear from the following instance. A 
few days ago the house of Jlr. Thorne waa 
broken iuto by a desperate setof banditti ; after 
much expense and loss of time, 3Jr. T. was advised 

to advertise ; and one Mr. , a silversmith iu 

Xew Slip, on reading the advertisement rucollccted 
that an indigent person had left a tivnkard for sale 
at his shop, the preceding day. In a few minutes 
after the min entered the shop and being secured, 
was carried bcl'orc a magistrate, where he con- 
fessed, and was admitted staie's evidence. In 
consequence of which two of hi.-! confederates were 
apprehended, I he fourth, the most active and des- 
perate, is still at large, but as, ho is well known 
and was hitely seen in the city, it is likely lie will 
soon be taken. — N. Y. Gaz. 

On Tuesday morning, November 2d, AVilliam j 
Guthrie and Joseph Alexander, pursuant to sen- 
tence, were h.anged at Beaver I'ond, for robbery 
and burglary, .at the liouse of Thomas Thorne, 
east side of Cow Neck. James Itamago, who 
turned state's evidence w.as pardoned. October 
28ih, a-s was a!;"0 Osgood Brown, whose father, in ' 
ilassaciiusetts, bad interest enough with Ciovernor 
Hancock to g?'t liiin to intercede iu his behalf. — 
X. Y. Piiclxt and Hook of Commissions, (AlbaytyJ i 
n. C,j>. 2.;(\ I 

1783, J«/// 28. — The following pei-sons were in- 
dicted in Al'oany and Duchess Counties for ad- 
hering to the enemies of this .state, and notified 
to appear at the next term of the Supreme Ci,urt 
to traverse the indictments, and show cause why 
their property should not be fori'citcd to the people 
of this state : • 

Of New "^'ork — Henry Peters, Michael Piico, i 
merchants ; Lambert iloore, E/jq., .John Jfooiv, ; 
gentleman. Of Oysterbay — I.-^rael and Isaac 
Voung.s, loiHcis; Pcnii Week?, Jolmnnis Bxrnet, 
Thorn IS I'l.ice, Jr., yeomen ; John Hewlett, Esq. 
Of llempptead — John Kissani, Joseph, .Stephen i 
and Thomas Thoruoi .Stephen Hewlett, Hewlett, 
Town.'end, j-cr.meu. Of Newlown — Jacob and ! 
.lohu Moore, Lieutenant James ^[arr. Captain 
Dow Van Dyue. Of Je.maica — Joluiuuis Polbe- i 
mu8, innkeeper. Of Huntington — Arthur Mm- 
gey.— AV/. ! 

1783, Oct, 22. — The Supreme Court opened at 
Albany with a charge to the jury by Robert Yates, ' 



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67 



Esq., one of the puisne judges, wlien a great uum- 
ber of persons from very distant abodes appeared, 
to traverse indictments prefeiTcd against them on 
the charge of adliering to the enemies of this state ; 
all of wliom were treated with the utmost hospitali- 
ty and good liunior by the worthy inhabitants of 
^hat city. — Biv. Gaz. 

Previous to this the Legislature had, October 
23d, 1779, forfeited the property of the following, 
among other persons, and banished them forever 
from the state, viz. . William Axtell, John Rapelye 
and Miles Sherbrook, of Kings County ; George 
Duncan and Gabriel G. Ludlow, Thomas Jones, 
George Folliot, David Coldeu, Daniel Kissam, the 
elder, and Henry Lloyd of Queens County ; 
George Mnirson, Parker 'Wickham and Richard 
Floyd, of Suffolk County. — Ed. 



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17S-1, Jiili/ 22.— The Rev. John Bowdeu, Ja- 
maica, offers a reasonable reward and charges for 
his'5 negro boy. Bill aged twenty, who ran away, 
and had on a short olive-colored coat, double- 
breasted waistcoat and stripedjtrowsers. 



17S4, Aug. 12. — Strayed from Elderd Van 
Wyck, East Woods, a black mar^ ; if stolen, two 
half Joes reward for securing and bringing the 
thief to justice. — N. Y. Journal. 

1784, Sejit. 7. — At nine o'clock, on Friday 
evening, as Major Hcudrick Hendrickson, of Long 
Island, was travelling on the road to Stonington 
Point, he was strack on the head with a sword and 
robbed, by three persons on horseback, of one 
hundred and fifty half-joes, forty-one guineas, and 
twenty half-guineas. He succeeded in crawling to 
the house of R. Cheeseborough, where his wounds 
were dressed, and he is now doing well. 

1784. — To be sold, September 17th, at the inu 
of Joseph Betts, Jamaic^p the household furniture, 
farming utensils, riding chair, horses and cows, 
seized and attached as the property of Joseph 
French, gentleman, for the benefit of his creditors. 

1784. — Run away from Isaac Hasbrouek, at 
Oysterbay, October 20tb, a negro man Isaac, who 
has lived there a year, and passed himself as free. 
He is very ragged, has a coat patched of different 
colors, pock-marked, speaks quick and stammers. 
Whoever delivers him to John Townsend shall 
have $5 and charges. 

1784, Nov. 25.— Robert G. Livingston, New 
York, offers for sale, the farm on Little Plains, 

♦formerly occupied by James Everitt, on the south 
side of the road from Jamaica to Hempstead. 
Also, a farm of twenty acres, north side of the 
great plains, formerly occupied by David Valen- 
tine. — N. y. Journal. 

178.5, Jan. 27. — Daniel Clements offers for sale, 
his farm of one hundred and sixty acres, one mile 
from Flushing landing, on a very public road ; a 
good stand for business. It has a large orchard 
which makes excellent cider, a peach orcliard and 
various other trees. On it is a house, barn, out- 
houses and mill-house. 

1785, Feb. 26. — John Allen and others, Benja- 
min Coles and others, Hendrick Onderdonk and 
others, Henry Allen and others, William Simon- 
sou and others, William McCoun and others, peti- 
tion the Legislature for a law to raise money far a 
Court House and Jail in Queens County. 

1785, March 7. — For sale, the farm of Benjamin 
North deceased, containing forty-two acres, one 
mile from Newtown, on the road to Jamaica. 

1785, lilarcli 9.— Willett Skidmore and others, 
of Flushing ; Simon Hortou and others, of New- 
town, petition the Legislature for a Court House 
at Jamaica. James Cebra, of Jamaica,- and Silva- 
nus Beedle, of Hempstead, also present petitions 
respecting the most convenient and advantageous 
situation for erecting a Court House and Jail. — 
Ass. Jour. 

1785, March 10.— Henry Stocker and John ' 
Woolley, petition the Legislature for right of ferry- 
across the Sound, from Great Neck to the Main. 



1§ 



t-S 



QUEENS COUNTY 



175."), March 17. — For sale, the farm of Joliu 
Parsells, near ItaUett's Cove, adjoining the widow 
Blackwell. It lia.s two stone quan'ies. 

17S.5, March 31. — Thirty Loyalists (among 
tlu-m Mr. Moore, of Newtown,) have retumcd to 
New York from Nova Scotia. 

17S5, March 31..^An Act was pa-'scd requiring 
the Supervi.wris of Queens County to raise £2,000 
to build a Court House and Jail at or near Benja- 
min Checsemau's, in North Hempstead. The 
Judges of the Common Pleas are authorized to su- 
perintend and direct the building of the same with 
good economy; and till it be finished, to hold 
their courts at Jamaica. 

178-5, Axn-il 11. — Wilnara Valentine held an in- 
quest on the body of Niah Smith who lived 
wliere Elbert Arthur since did, at Herricks. Smith 
had sold a yoke of oxen and as he returned home 
to the barn to put up his horse, the report of a gun 
was heard, when his wife exclaimed to her servant : 
" There ! your master is shot," and so it proved to 
be ; but he was not robbed, for on searching tor 
him he was found lying dead with his dog guard- 
ing his body and the price of the oxen in his pock- 
et. No clue was ever found to his mysterious 
death, though suspiciou was fixed on a certain per- 
son. — Ed. 

1784, June 3. — On Saturday, Mr. John "Way, 
of Newtown, a person of ease and affluence, who 
had been very cheerful all the morning, went in 
his kitchen, and said : " Girls, you must take care 
of yourselves, I am done for." He tlien went in 
an adjoining room where he was, not long after, 
found dead. He left an only daughter. — N. Y. 
Journal. 

1785, Oct. 19. — Last Friday were the sweep- 
stakes over Beaver Pond, Jamaica. Heats one 
mile by 

The black horse Ariel, - - 1 1 
liay mare Jlatchless, - - 3 2 
The gelding Sloven, - - - 4 3 
The horse Brilliant, - - 2 4 
The second heat was admirably disputed and 

won by a neck, from the mare, which was the 

proud winner a few mouths ago. 

1786, Jan. 2. — One guinea reward. — Ran away 
from Johannes Polhcmus, living at Jamaica, a ne- 
gro man. Brock, commonly known by the name of 
Tom, and pitted with the small-pox ; supposed to 
be lurking somewhere in New York till ho can get 
a passage to Nova Scotia, as he was seen to pass 
Long Island ferry. Masters of vessels arc ibrbid 
carrying him away. — N. Y. Packet. 

1786, Jan. 9.— Esther Townscnd, Oystcrbay, 
offers to let two grist-mills, always supplied with 
water, and a farm of two hundred and fifty acres, 
eligibly situated. On it are two houses, outhouses 
and orchard. It commands a view of the Sonnd 
and frouts the harbor, which abounds in fish and 



fowl in their season. It will bo lei at the house of 
Nicholas Weeks, adjoining.— Z»«i7y Advertiser. 

1786, Jan. 16.— Samuel and Josiah Blackwell 
offer for sale the farm of Jacob Blackwell, deceased, 
of Newtown, on the East River, containing one 
hundred and .six acres, yith house, kitchen, 
bake-house, milk-house, cider mill-house, fowl- 
house, large bam and two orchards of sis hundred 
trees. 

1786. — January 19th, at sunri.se, the mercmy 
stood at twenty-four degrees belov/ zero, which is 
two degrees colder than it was in 1780 and 17S4. 
It was extremely cold all day. — X. V. Journal. 

1786, Jan. 23. — Gregoi-y Richie, of Hempstead 
Harbor, petitions the Legislature for aid in erecting 
a paper mill. 

1786, Jan. 26. — Anthony and Benjamin Betts 
offer for sale the farm of William Bett^s, deceased, j 
two miles from Newtown lauding, containing one 
hundred and seven acrcis and cuts twenty loads 
of hay, and is convenient to the New York market. 
On it are a house cider-mill, wagou-house, work- 
shop, barn, and two orchards of Newtown pippins, 
far preferable for bearing to any in the place, and a 
thriving peach-orchard. There is a laigc quantity 
of turf, which in a few years will be very valuable. 
On it is a spring of water convenient for watering 
cattle. 

1786, Feb. 1. — Charles Roach and others peti- 
tion the Legislature for leave to open a ditch 
through the wet ti'act of meadow, near the middle 
of Newtown, as it is prejudicial to health and the 
interest of the laud owners ; the ditch to nm from 
C. Roach's to a division line between Abraham 
Rapelyea and Ann Fish, and the owners of the 
meadow to choose the managers. — Ass. Journal. 

1786, Feb. 2.— Thomas Bowne, New York, of- 
fers for Sivle the farm of Jacob Bowne, deceased. 
Mill Neck, Oysterbay, containing two hundred 
acres, wth salt meadow and marsh adjoining. On 
it arc a large house, bam, out- houses, five hundred 
apple trees and other fruit. 

1786, Feb. 2.— Ambrose and Samuel Fish, Ex- 
ecutors, offer for sale the farm of Nathan Smithj 
deceased, one and a half miles from Flushing land- 
ing, on the road to Jamaica, containing one hun- 
dred and thirty acres. The house has eight rooms 
on a floor, with two kitchens. t)n it arc a store- 
house, barn, outhouses, orchard, a brook, spring 
and well near the house. It is an excellent stand 
for any public business, or a gentleman's country 
seat. 

17SG, Feb. 9. — For sale, the farm belonging to 
the Episcopal church, Jamaica, pleasantly situated, 
a mile west of the village. It contains seventy 
acres, (six of which are wood) good for pasture or 
tillage, a house, barn and y(jung orchard, with a 
variety of other fruit. Enquire of Christopher 
Smith, Jamaica ; Daniel Ki^sam, Flushing Fly, 
or Kev. Mr. Bloomer, Newtown. 



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17S6, Feh. 20. — At <iu election for Ecpresenta- 
tivcs to the Legislature, iu 1785, South Hempstead 
cave 127 votes ; North Hempstead, 42 ; Nevv'town, 
32 ; Flushing, 25 ; Jamaica, 56 ; and Oysterbay, 
57. That out of 3.59 votes, 127 -were from South 
Hempstead, that most obnoxious part of the coun- 
ty, is v.-ith other circumstances extremely mortify- 
ing, and demands the early attention of every vir- 
tuous citizen, and the aid of the Legislature who 
should turn their attention to Queens County and 
pass laws suitable to their peculiar situation, so 
that peace may be restored, and a remedy provided 
for those citizens whose estates are withheld by 
fraudulent conveyances. The virtuous sniiering 
citizens demand their rights. The door is locked 
against them and the key withheld. Those who 
have sacrificed their fortunes and spent the prime 
of their lives in defence of the Amencan cause 
should have redress. — N. Y. Paclvt 

1786, Fel). 20.— Joseph and David Koe, Execu- 
tors, offer for sale the farm of David Itoe, deceased, 
cue and a half miles from Flushing, on the main 
road to Whitestone feny. It contains one hundred 
and forty acres, with salt meadow, is well watered, 
has two orchards, a peach orchard and other fruits. 
The house has six fire-places on the lower floor 
and two above. There is a kitchen, store-house 
and other out buildings. There is a well lay the 
door and a boiling spring a short distance from the 
house. 

1786, Feb. 27. — John Howes offers for sale a 
small fann, lying in Newtown bounds, containing 
sixteen acres, upland and meadow and fifty apple 
trees. It is conveniently situated for a gentleman's 
country seat, adjoining the East River, opposite 
the lower end of Blackwell's Island and Turtle Bay. 

1786, Feh. 27. — Abraham Lawrence offers for 
sale the south part of his Neck that makes the 
east side of Flushing Bay, containing a house, 
barn and two hundred end fifty acres of land, as 
good as any ou Long Island, where forty loads of 
hay may be cut. There is a small orchard and 
plenty of wood for the use of the place. It is well 
watered and in good fence. Adjoining the upland 
are seventy acres of salt meadow. Fish and fowl 
to be had in great abtindance the season roimd. 

1786, 3Iarch 9. — ^Walter Franklin's widow offers 
to let the farm at the head of Newtown Creek, two 
miles from the church. Ou it is a double house, 
barn, stable, coach-house and other buildings, an 
orchard and kitchen-garden. It contains twenty- 
nine acres fit for pasture or tillage, and is a desi- 
rable retreat for a gentleman's family. Boats go 
to market daily, within a few rods of the door, 

1786, March 13. — For sale or to let, the house, 
barn and eight or ten acres of land, whereon David 
Lamberson lately lived, near the main road iu Ja- 
maica. It is a beautiful situation, and would suit 
any person for pleasure or profit, being very liandy 
for water. Also, a stone-house in the main street, 
■where M. Lewis formerly lived. 



1786, A2ml 3. — Stephen Rapelye offers for sale 
a lot, forty by fifty feet, ou which, at present, a 
stable is erected on the south-cast corner of the 
road fiicing the Presbyterian church, Jamaica. 

1786, Aiiril 13. — Thomas Lambert lloore, Epis- 
copal Minister at South Hempstead, takes this 
method of informing the public that, with the help 
of a proper assistant, he still continues his school, 
where the English, Latin and Greek languages, 
with various branches of mathematics, are faithful- 
ly taught, and the greatest attention paid to the 
morale, manners and education of the youth, in- 
trusted to his management and tuition. 

I7S6, Mai/ 4.— §5 JRcward. — Ran away from 
Allen Jlitchcll, Great Neck, a mulatto slave, Isaac, 
uncommonly large boned, six feet four inches high. 
He had on a bear-skin coat, reddish velvet waist- 
coat, tow shirt and trowsers, thin shoes, and wears 
a watch. Ho had buckskin breeches. 

1786, June 14. — Newberry Davenport offers for 
sale the farm that Joseph Hicks now lives on, at 
Far Kockaway. It has three hundred acres ; the 
buildings in good repair. Elias Hicks, Stephen 
Hicks and Jacob "Williams, Trustees. 

1786, Jul>i 10.— Daniel and Altie Kapalje for 
d£4, sell a burying-gi-ound, s,t Flower Hill, to 
Adrian, Peter and Hendrick Ouderdonk, Martin 
Sehenck, Ann Rapalje, Thomas Dodge, Andries 
Hegeman, Sr. and Jr., and Elbert Hegeman, Sr. 
and Jr. 

1786, Jid)j 20. — The insect that has destroyed 
the wheat, many years past, continues to spread, 
but it Las no efi'cct on the white-bearded wheat 
raised on Long Island. This wheat was brought 
here from the Southward during the war, and a 
few bushels sown by a Flushing farmer grew well 
End aflbrded a fine crop. He kept ou and has 
supphed his neighbors. It grows twenty bushels 
to the acre and weighs over sixty pounds. It is of 
a bright yellow color and makes fine flour. The 
straw is harder and resists the poison of the fly, and 
supports the grain, while bearded and bald v/heat 
were cut off. — iV. Y. Packet. 

17S6, July 27. — Samuel Townsend and Lewis 
Cornell, Loan officers of Queens County inform 
the inhabitants thereof that they will give their at- 
tendance at the County House, or some other con- 
venient honsc near it, on Monday, 31st iust., to 
receive tfec names of all that incline to borrow any 
of the ntvf money. 

1786, Aug. 3.— SIO Bcimrd. — Run away from 
Charles Arding, a short, well-made negro man. 
Flummery, but is supposed to have changed his 
name. He is well known aliout Jamaica and oth- 
er places on Long Island. He had permission for 
a few days to look for another master. 

1'7S6, Aug. 7. — For sale, a fine fann on Little 
Plains, leading on the right to Foster's Meadow. 
It is iu good fence all round the land. A very 
good stand for a tavern or shop-keeper. The 



'id 



Q U E E N S C O l' X T Y 



Louse cau Lc rciniiicil with little cxi>cnso. It is 
now occupied by Jlr. Benjamin Dorland, and will 
l>e Kold very re.isouable. Enquire of Thomas 
Dctts, witLiu four miles west of Jamaica. 

17SC, Aug. 21. — The wife of Jacob Doxcy, at 
"\Ye.=tbury, a few days n^o, was delivered of three 
chikU-cu at a birth — two boys and a girl ; all like 
to do well. 

17SG. — Far Iiockmcaij liaccs, Wednesday, Sep- 
• tember Gtb, at 3 P. SI., on that convenient and 
Fpacious ground (a mile course) near Jacob Hicks' 
luu. £20 Purse — the best thrco of two mile 
heats. The next day a ,f 10 Purse — best three of 
one mile Jieats. No crossing, jo.stling or foul \ilay 
countenanced ; or if detected, the rider will be 
pronounced distanced. J. II., from a wish to 
gratify a number of gcatlemen who visit hU house, 
ji.irticuhirly sportsmen, is induced to set on foot so 
i.oUe and manly a divereion, and wishes the same 
principle may excite gentlemen to contribute to 
the purses. 

17S6, Oct. 2. — Last Jlnnday, died, at Jam.aica, 
iigcd.thirt}--two. Major Stephen Mcl)ougak sou of 
the late Major-General lIcDougal. 

17S6, Oct. 12. — Died, at Moorfields, Flushing, 
on Sunday evening, aged thirty-four, Mrs. Ger- 
trude Onderdouk, the amiable consort of Lambert 
Moore, Esq., formerly Comptroller of Ilis Majesty's 
customs, alter a painful illness of three years, af- 
foruiuii the followers of her sacred Master an exam- 




{ 



Moore, deeply affected the hearts of every attend- 
ing t by its just representation of her character.— iV. 
r. Fuclct. 

1786, Kov. 30.— Yesterday, .-md the day before, 
were uncommonly cold. Yesterd.ay morning it 
was nineteen degrees. Dec. 14. — "Wood has ri.sen 
to an extravagant price since the late bad weather 
commenced, and sells IGs. per load.— iV. Y. low- 
r,al. 

17S7, Fch. 3. — For sale, the bcantifd. and 
pleasant house in the town spot of Jamaica, form- 
erly the property of Chief-Justice llorsemanden, 
Aviih an excclUnl barn and otlier outhouses, and 
one acre of land. Apply to Danigl Lawrence, at 
Hell-Gate Keck. 

17S7, Fch. S. — The Sheriff of Queens County 
petitions the Lcgi-slatun- for an Act to remove the 
prisoners from tlie jail in New York to the jail just 
completed in Queens County. — Ass. Jotamil 

17S", — "William Valentine held .an inquest on 
the body of Ann, a' lit tie dauglilcr of Kichard Kirk, 
who was accidentally drowned by falling' through 
tiie ice of her father's mill-pond, (now William C 
Bryant's. 

17S7, April 4. — Jeromtis Iloogland's farm. 
Flushing, one hundred and twenty-five acres, at 



present in occnpatiim of 3Ir. V»n I'eh, is to be sol^ 
at auction, at the lun of John Ilolroyd. 

17S7, April 4.— James Cebra has taken a large 
and convenient house in tlvc pleasant town of Ja- 
maica, tftid proposes to keep a lx).arding house for 
gentlemen choosing to reside in the country during 
the summer season, and for children who m.ay be 
sent thither for education, there being a very good 
Latin and English school next door. The stage 
will go every day to and from Brooklyn ferry, 
from May 1st. 

17S7, April 5. — l8r.<iel Wells, Goshen, offers for 
sale that valuable plantation of near ftmr Inmdred 
acres, situiited near the Great Plains, on Nassau 
Island, late the seat of Judge Ludlow. Uu it is 
an elegant twrnstory house and every other build- 
ing nccessaiy for a farmer or gentleman, and a 
great variety of fruit trees in their maturity. The 
place is so well known that a detail of its excellen- 
cies is needless, neither can it add to the s.alubrity 
and beautifulness of its situation. Its capital im- 
provcnunits and contiguity to New York and Ja- 
maica greatly augment its v.alue, .and render it the 
most delightsome and valuable place in the State. 
Enquire of Uriah Mitchell, near the premises. 

17S7, April 5. — The Ilcssi.an tty appeared on 
the west end of Long Island, three years before 
the close of the Kevolntionary war, from German 
wheat as is supposed. The proper white-bearded 
wheat may be Iiad of Jlr. Underbill, miller. Flush- 
ing, who sells it for the good of the community. 
The fly seems to be retiring from Long Island. 
The last of September or beginning of October is 
the best time for sowing, as the mornings and even- 
ings being frosty benumb the insect. — N. Y. 
Journal. 

1787, A2)ril 9. — Sealy Jc Funuan, coach and 
chair makers, Brooklyn, will run a daily stage 
from Waldron's to Bardin's Inn, Jamaica. Fare 

2s. Gd. 

17S7, 31(11/ 2.— Nicholas Fish offers for sale a 
farm of one hundred .acres, at Newtown, where 
Jonathan Underbill now lives, being part of the 
estate of Jouathau Fish, deceased. 

17S7, Maij 10.— Of a State tax of =£50,000 the 
quota by counties was : Queens, d£4,o00 ; Suffolk, 
1-2,300 ; Kings, .£4,500. 

17.S7, JiiJif 6. — SIO Jieuard. — Ran away from 
"William I'.>^tick, Flushing, a German m.an servant, 
John Nicholas IMathers. He had on leather 
breeches or Osnabrig trowsers. 

1787, Aiiff. 10. — John Talnian, Administrator 
of Oliver Talmnn, Fliisiiing, issued proce.-;3 against 
Archil)ald Hamilton in an .action of trespass?, in 
cutting down and carrying away divers qu.iutities 
of spruce trees to his damage, ,£r2,0l)0. Judgment 
rendered for the plaintifl' by default. — N. Y. l)(tihj 
Advertiser. 

1787, Aug. 24. — A large jaw-bone was dug up 



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at Grecit Neck wliicli Dr. S. L. Mitchell thinks to 
be that of a sea-cow. 

1784, 3Iay 17. — Civil officers of Quecus Coun- 
ty : 

Judges. — Timothy Smith, Prior Townseud aud 
Benjamin Coe. 

Justices of the Peace. — Henry Allen, Isaac 
Cornwcll, Caleb Cornell, Abraham Ditmars, Ben- 
jamin Everit, William Lawrence, John Luy.ster, 
Jordan Seaman, John Schenck, Samuel Talman, 
Richard Valentino, John Way, Samuel Waldrou, 
Samuel Youngs, Wm. Coruwell. 

Siqjcrvisors. — Oysterbay, George Townsend ; 
Hempstead, Adrian Onderdonk ; Flushing, Steph- 
en Van Wyck ; Jamaica, Nicholas Everitt ; New- 
town, Samuel Kikcr. 

Constables and Collectors. — Oysterbay, Samuel 
Burr ; Hempstead, Jolm Burtis (and John Sear- 
ing, constable only) ; Flushing, Samuel Clement ; 
Jamaica, Plat Smith ; Newtown, John Gosline. 

1784, Dec. 28. — For sale, the fann of Richard 
• Lawrence, deceased, Newtown, formerly Samuel 
Renne's, containing sixty-four acres. On it are a 
house with eight rooms and fire-places, with an 
entry on each story, iu suitable repair to receive 
any gentleman, and a large body of pipe-clay, said 
to be suitable for the China factory, and equal to 
any in America. 

1786, Feb. 13. — For sale, the house and farm 
lately belonging to Dr. Arding, near Jamaica. 
The stock and farming-utensils will also be sold at 
a moderate price. 

1787, April 26. — At the approach of every 
election the ill feeling against the Loyalists was 
appealed to, as the following electioneering song 
will testify : — Ed. 

Electors, attend, pray deliver your votes, 
Beware of those lists tbat are made by turncoats ; 
Base Tories we call 'em, a pitifnl crew. 
Who every vile measure and plan will piirsue. 

Permit me to hold up for consideration 

Four persons to serve iu the next Legislation, 

They're men whom the Whigs have fixed for your choice. 

So choose one and all with an audible voice. 

Let farmers, mechanics, good Whigs, all agree 
To put in such men as are honest and free ; 
Now join hand iu hand in defence of our laws. 
And unite in support of fair Liberty's cause. 

— iV. I'. Journal. 

1787, Mat/ 3. — Sealy & Furman, coach and 
chair makers, Brooklyn, have provided themselves 
with an elegant stage-coach, hung upon steel 
springs, with a capital pair of horses and careful 
driver, which will set ofi' daily, at half-past eight, 
from Mrs. Waldron's, at the feny, for Mrs. Bar- 
din's, Jamaica ; and retm-n at four P. M., for the 
trifling sum of 2s. 6c?. a passenger. Letters taken, 
if 2d. is left with each, at the stage-house. 

1787, Dec. 10. — Governor Clinton, from New 
York city, issues a warrant through William Lash- 
er, Collector of the Port, to the Sheriff of Queens 
County to seize a vessel iu Hempstead Bay or 



Harbor, for selling dutiable goods there without 
having entered them aud secured the payment o' 
duties. — Clintmi papers. 

1788, March 22. — Lucern grass is recently in- 
troduced and highly praised. It can be mowed 
five times in one season, and cuts eight loads of 
hay per acre. Cows feeding on it give larger 
messes of milk, and the butter is of better quality. 
Horses are sustained by it as on gram, iu their 
hardest labor. 

1788, Mcnj 9. — William Warne, sign of the 
stage-wagon, Jamaica, has taken that noted house 
and beautiful gardens, lately occupied by Edward 
Bardin, for the accommodation of ladies and gen- 
tlemen. He intends keeping a genteel stage-wag- 
on to run to Mr. Waldron's, Brooklyn ferry, leav- 
ing Jamaica daily, except Sundays, at half-past 
sis, and return at half-past four. Fare 2s. and Qd. 
Letters and*baggage attended to. Each letter 2d., 
and baggage in proportion. 

1788, Maij 27. — Canvass of votes in Queens 
County for four Members of Assembly : 



O? ro coi2! 






gg it Is §§- ii i-'i 2 2 

"a pg =^1. p-= ?! ^g- p' 

Oysterbay, - - - 75 48 :jO 42 22 44 

North Hempstead, 84 82 47 98 80 49 50 

South Hempstead. 203 219 147 123 25 33 ' 8 

Jamaica, . ... 14 13 69 14 27 76 75 

Flushing, - - - 9 9 56 10 65 72 57 

Newtown, - - - 23 6 52 23 82 60 57 



408 377 371 338 321 312 291 

*1783, Fch. 20. — Samuel Jones, by the address of Gover- 
nor CUnton, is made his active tool to serve the interests of 
his own party. — N. V. Adv. 

1788, May 30.— Vote of Queens County for 
four Delegates to the State Convention to adopt 
the Constitution of the United States : 



^g' 


CO 




9'^ 


mS 


2 ? 


13 




S3 

en o 


2.0 


is. 


PI 


2 3 

2.g 
? 5- 


2 S 




1" 


Oysterbay, - 105 


io2 


88 


87 


29 


36 


43 


22 


N. Hempstead, 108 


113 


108 


106 


70 


68 


65 


68 


S. Hempstead, 232 


231 


214 


238 


21 


22 


23 


18 


Jamaica, - 23 


23 


23 


22 


107 


106 


108 


\m 


Flushing, - 13 


13 


13 


13 


110 


101 


99 


104 


Newtown, - 36 


36 


38 


10 


79 


78 


77 


61 



517 518 484 476 416 411 415 401 

1788, June 11.— The Synod of the Reformed 
Dutch Cliurch set apart this day as a day of Fast- 
ing, Humiliation aud Prayer, that the members of 
the State Convention may be inspired with wisdom 
from on High, and that their decisions may per- 
petuate our civil and religious privileges. 

1788, July 8. — Last Friday the Anniversary of 
our National Independence was celebrated in the 
following manner at Jamaica : The ringing of 
bells and thu'tceu discharges of musketry an- 
nounced the au.spicious day. An elegant dinner 



17 



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was provided, at wliicli a very respectable number 
of gentlemen (mostly Eederalists) were present. 
The general satisfaction felt, was too conspicuous 
in the countenances and conduct of each jjcrson 
present, to pass unnoticed. The utmost friendship 
and hai-mony subsisted. After dinner, Francis 
Lewis, Jr., in the chair, the following toasts, ac- 
companied with thirteen volleys of small arms, were 
given. The toasts were drank with additional 
relish, on the news of the all-important and liapjiy 
event of the accession of ten Btatcs to the new 
Federal Government : 

1. The Congress of tlie United States. 

2. Washington. 

3. The memory of Jlontgomeiy and those Ile- 
roes who fell in defence of American liberty. 

4. His most Christian Majesty and our Allies. 

5. Jlay agriculture, commerce and manufactures, 
flourish in the United States. 

G. The mtmbers of the late general Conven- 
tion. 

7. The ten adopting States of the new Constitu- 
tion. 

8. Our fellow-citizens of the Cincinnati, may 
tlicii- virtues in ]n-ivate life be conspicuous as their 
valor in the field. 

9. I^Iay wisdom and magnanimity pervade the 
councils of the United States. 

10. May om- new Government ensure peace and 
tranquility at Lome, credit and respectability 
abroad. 

11. May the spirit of industry and economy be 
diffused in the United States. 

12. May the citizens of America consider them- 
selves as a band of brothers and ever nourish Fed- 
eral sentiments. 

13. The Day.— iV. F. Baihj Advertiser. 

17SS, Azig. 13.— On the Sth inst. the adoption 
of the new Constitution was celebrated at Flush- 
ing, by persons collected from different parts of 
the county. At day-break a salute was fired from 
the i)ark of artillery, in front of a beautiful and 
splendid colonnade erected on the Green, in the cen- 
tre of tlic town, wliicli consisted of a variety of pil- 
lars covered with sprigs of fir and yew trees, arched 
between and ingeniously ornamented on the top 
with borders of the same, supporting standards of 
the different states who have adopted the new 
Constitution. At the cast end was a canopy of 
white linen, the curtains of which were festooned 
with blue ribbons and exhibited this inscription : 
'■Federal Conslitulio)i, Sept., 17S7." Under the 
canopy was the President's chair on an elevated 
platform, and covered with a rich carpet, the whole 
ibrmiug an elegant and pleasant appearance. At 
three o'clock the discharge of guns announced that 
dinner was served under the colonnade. The 
president, Col. Wm. S. Smith, was conducted to 
the chair, and the gentlemen set down with that 
hilarity usual on such an occasion. After dinner 
the following toasts were drank, with discharges of 
eleven guns to each from the Park : 



1. The United States and Union in their Coun- 
cils. 

2. The illustrious Waahington. 

3. Our Allies and all friendly Powers. 

4. May the citizens of America have spirit to 
defend what the wisdom of her councils Lave 
framed. 

5. The Eleven States who adopted the New 
Constitution. 

C. The memory of those American Heroes who 
fell in the late glorious stniggle for their liberties. 

7. May our interests as a nation be supported 
by honesty and industry. 

S. May the liberty of the Press be preserved 
and its licentiousness jmuished. 

9. May the industrious farmer reap tlic fruit of 
his labor. 

10. The Cincinnati. 

11. The American Fair. * 

An oration was tlien delivered by Mr. Jolm 
Mulligan, a student of Columbia College. This 
unexpected exhibition to the auditory, the graceful 
manner and interesting subject, excited the admira- 
tion of the hearers and commanded loud plaudits 
to the youthful orator. 

The convis'iality was heightened by tlic arrival, 
from New York, of gentleJiien who participated at 
the entertainment anil landed with a discharge of 
artillery which was answered by the Park. — N. Y. 
Daily Adv. 

1788, Aug. 29.— Isaac Underbill, Miller at 
Flushing, bought some wheat froni a ship in New 
York, in 1780 or 81, and had not the fly in his 
next crop. — JV. Y. Pachct, 

1788.— Before September 3d, James Coniwell 
fell in a creek in South Hempstead and was 
drowned. 

1788. — Before September 3d, Mary, a negro 
child, the properly of Charles and Catharine John- 
eon, Newtown, died of wounds it had received in 
the head. An indictment being preferred against 
Johnson by the Attorney-General, the Grand Jury 
return on it ignoramus, and Johnson was dis- 
charged. 

1788, Sept. 10. — Taken up, a negro man, James, 
who says he belongs to Ilev. John Bowden, Ja- 
maica, Long Island, aged about twenty, and had 
on around wool hat. The owner will prove prop- 
erty and pay charges to David Cook, near Wall 
Kill, Ulster County ; otherwise, iu sixty days he 
will be sold according to law. 

1788. Nov. 1.— Micliacl, a negro man slave of 
John Allen, Flushing, died by chance-medley and 
misadventure from a correction he appeared to 
have from some person iniknown. 

[Allen lu'.d lost money and severely flogged tlio 
negro, but could not extort a confession.] — JEd. 

1788, Nov. 10.— John Greene, for stealing a 
horse of Silas Pearsall, is sentenced to receive thir- 
ty-nine lashes on his naked back this afternoon. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



and thirty-nine • more to-morrow morning ; and 
then depart the county. — Court Minutes. 

Till the close of the Revohition all voting iu 
Queens County was done with an audible voice. 
The first law passed by our Legislature iu relation 
to elections introduced the practice of voting by 
secret ballot for Governor and Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor only ; the old practice of voting viva voce for 
Senators and Assemblymen was continued till 
17S7. All County elections were held at one 
place, Jamaica, till 1799, when the practice of vot- 
ing in the separate townships of the county was 
ad'opted. The polls were kept open several days. 
—Ed. 

1789, Jan. 24. — Jacob Marvin, and one hundred 
and nine other inhabitants pray the Legislature 
that North and South Hempstead may be re-imit- 
ed. William Thoruc and one hundred and eleven 
others, Heudrick Onderdonk and ninety-seven 
others, and Richard Valentine .and sixty-six others, 
all inhabitants of North Hempstead, petition against 
a re-union, and pray to remain sejjarate. 

1789. — Wednesday, January 28th, is to be ob- 
served as a day of Humiliation, Fastmg and 
Prayer, by all the Dutch and Presbyterian church- 
es in New York and New Jersey, that God would 
put a stop to the progress of the destroying insect, 
which is cutting off the fiiiits of the earth in the 
Middle States, for the establishment of wise effi- 
cient, united' and permanent civil Government, &c. 

17S9, Feb. 9.— R. G. Livingston. New York, of- 
fers for sale a farm of sixty-two acres at Little 
Plains, on the right hand of the road to Hempstead, 
now occupied by Joseph Seely. It is in good re- 
pair and suitable for a merchant or tavern-keeper. 

17 S9, Feb. IS.— For sale, the fai-m of Israel 
Hallet, deceased, Newtown Landing, contrdning 
fifty or sixty acres, suitable'for marketing, a coun- 
try seat or merchant. There is a wharf eight rods 
from the house where several small vessels may 
lay alongside, or a ferry to New York may be kept. 
Any quantity of turf may be <;ut from it, almost 
equal to coal for burning. 

1789, Feb. 9. — Jo.seph Robinson was Chairman 
of a meeting, at Jam.aica, of electors from North 
Hempstead, Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown, who 
nominated Robert Y.'^es for Governor — present, 
Drs. Ledyard and Minema, Robert Furman, James 
Depeyster, F. Lewis, Jr., Dr. Wm. Lawton, An- 
'drew Onderdonk and J. M. Smith. 

1789, March 3. — Abraham and Daniel Lent of- 
fer for sale the farm of Jacobus Lent, deceased, 
Newtown, consisting of one hundred and fifty 
acres, on the Bowery Bay, where shell and scale 
fish may be caught a small distance from the door. 
Fifty or sixty ban-els of cider may be made yearly, 
and forty or fifty loads of salt hay may be cut. 
In the rear is a turf meadow, which will afford fuel 
and manure for several generations to come. 

1789, March 21. — For sale, the pleasant and 



valuable farm of Lambert Moore, three miles east 
of Flushing, on the road to Hempstead Plains, 
consisting of two hundred acres, on v;hich are a 
house, barn, two barracks, crib, court-yard and 
garden in neat pale fence, au orchard and other 
improvements. It is well watered and within a 
few i-ods of a grist-mill. Apply to John Moore, 
on the premises. 

178S, Mai/ A. — William Warne and John Van 
Nostrand's stage is in complete repair and rims 
daily (Sundays excepted) from Jamaica to Brook- 
lyn, leaving at half-past six and returning from 
Mr. Allen's, Brooklyn ferry, at half-past four. 
Fare, 2s. 6f?., and 3f?. for each letter forwarded by 
the stage. 

1789, May 11. — At the April term of the Su- 
preme Court, New York, several persons were 
tried for the forgery of an obligation appearing to 
bear date December, 1779, with warrant of attorn- 
ey to confess judgment for the payment of £1,000 
with interest. Abraham Morehouse, for felony in 
knowingly uttering and publishing said forged ob- 
ligation, Israel Youngs* and Samuel Waters for 
wilfully acting and assisting in publishing the 
same, severally received sentence of death. 

1789, Ma>j 26. — Canvass of votes in Queens 
County for four Members of Assembly : 

Samuel Clowes, - - - 426 
Stephen Carman, - - - 309 

Samuel Joues.f ... 365 
Whitehead Cornwell, - - - 373 
Richard Thornc, - - - 268 . 

John Schenck, .... 217 
Benjamin Coe, - - - 226 

Prior Townsend, - - - 170 

Lewis Cornwall, - - - 114 
1789, iUf/^ 28.— Vote of Queens County for 
Governor 4 

Geo. Cliuon. Robt. Yates. 
Oysterbay, - - - 80 11 

South Hempstead, - 181 8 

Jamaica, - - - 37 33 

North Hempstead, - 56 3G 

Newtown, - - - 101 .'") 

Flushing, - - - 27 31 



482 



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*Jiine 6tb, Youugs was respited by tbe CTOvernor. After 
bis conviction, ouo of bis creditors petitioned tbe Legisla- 
ture for tlio sum of £120 tliat bad been taken from Y'oiings 
in ]77G, wbeu be was aiTested for counterfeiting tbe Conti- 
nental currency, — Ass. J<mr., Nay 11, 1790. 

tTbis able lawyer and useful legislator (being first anti- 
federal and tben federal) was accused of trimming in poli- 
tics. Judge Spencer once asked bim : " How is tbis, Mr. 
Jones, the majority in tbe Soutlicm District fref|uently 
cbanges — at one time federal and tben republican — but you 
always get your election?" ''Wby!" rejilied .Tones, "to 
tell you the truth, when my troops wont follow me I follow 
them." — Hammond's Hist. N. )'., 1 ; 75. 

{The entire vote of tbe State (wbicli then contained only 
20,000 electors) was for Clinton, 6,391 ; for Yates. 5,902, 
leaving Clinton a majority of 429. Although he was 
elected, his friends on the several tickets were mostly de- 
feated. 



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QUEENS COUNTY 



17S9, May 28, — A fossil tooth found ou Lon|^ 
Island aud supposed so be one of the Mauaui, Avas 

presented to Peale's JIuscum by Dr. S. L. Mitch- 
ell.— iV. Y. BaiJif Adc. 

1789. — Last Saturday, the Anniversai-y of Afac- 
rican Independence was celebrated at Jamaica. 

1739, Off. 10. — Washington says, in his Diary : 
" I set off from New York, about nine o'clock, in 
my barge to visit Mr. Prince's fimit gardens aud 
shrubberies, at Flushing. The Vicc-1'resident, 
Governor, Mr. Izard, Colonel Smith aud Major 
Jackson, accompanied me. These gardens, except 
in the number of young fruit trees, did not answer 
my expectations. The shrubs were trifling and 
the flowers not numerous. The mhabitants of the 
place sliowed us what respect they could by mak- 
ing the best use of one cannon to salute." 

1789.— On Friday, October 22d, the dwelling- 
house of Jeremiah Vanderbilt, Es(j[., Flushing, was 
entii'ely consumed by fire together with all his fiu-- 
uiturc, etc., aud the records of the township, which 
were in his possession. It has been discovered 
that it was set on fire by a young negro wench who 
lived in the family ; being suspected, she was taken 
before a magistrate tor examination, when she con- 
fessed the ucl'arious act. She has since been com- 
mitted to the jail of Queens County. She con- 
fessed that she had several accomplices ; that the 
original design was to have poisoned and destroyed 
the family, but not being able to execute this dia- 
bolical scheme as soon as they wished, in the 
height of her impatience, she set fire to the house 
in the absence of her master, which together with 
the property tlicrcin contained, was outLiely de- 
stroyed. — Grccnica/'s iV. Y. Journal. 

[Nelly, a slave of Captain Daniel Braine, was 
indicted, November 10th, 1789, aud tried, Septem- 
ber 8, 1790, aud convicted of arson as principal, 
and Sar-ih, a slave of Mr. Vanderbilt, as accessary 
before the fact. They both plead guilty, and hav- 
ing nothing said why judgment of death should 
not pa.<3S ou them, on motion of Aarou Liurr, At- 
torney-General, they were sentenced, by Judge 
Robert Yates, to be hanged bj' the neck, October 
14th, at some public iilaec in the neighborhood of 
the Court House, till tliey be respectively dead. 
Sarah, on account of her youth was reprieved aud 
sent away. Nelly had been hired to work in Mr. 
Vauderbilt's family, who wore absent on a visit at 
the time of the fire. The prisoners were fifty 
weeks in jail'] — Ed. 

1789, Dec. 17.— Nathaniel "Weeks, of Oyster- 
bay, died by occasion of a fall from his horse be- 
tween Huntington and Oysterbay. 

1789. — Jamaica Races, October 29th. A purse 
of £20 will be. run for rouud Beaver Pond ; the 
best two in three two-mile heats. Entrance with 
■\Villiam Warne, 20s. The next day, a genteel sad- 
dle, bridle and whip, for a race twice round the 
pond at a heat, carrying a catch. 



1789, Nuv. 19.— (Jn Friday, good fresh beet 
sold at two and a half to three aud a half pence 
jier pound, aud other articles in projwrtiou. 

1789.— The President ordered Thursday, No- 
vember 26th, to be observed throughout the United 
States as a day of Thanksgiving to God for his 
many singular mercies. The day was stormy aud 

there was but a thiu attendance in this city. N 

Y. Jour. 

17S9, Dec. 21.— One Timothy Jackson or Sax- 
on, on pi-etence of arresting Lawrence McDermot, 
of Livingston, for an alleged trespass on his fa- 
ther's lands, on Long Island, during the Revolu- 
tionary war, robbed him. For this oiTence he was 
tried and eeutcnced in Columbia Countv. — Dailii 
A(h: 

1790, Feb. 4. — Samuel Talman, Executor of 
William Talman, deceased, offers for sale his farm 
of three hundred acres, within half a mile of two 
giist-mills, and a mile of Little Neck Bay, from 
which may be had oysters, fish and clams. On it 
are a house, barn, chair-house, granary, crib, bar- 
rack, two wells and three orchards. 

1790, March 4. — During the present winter sev- 
eral vessels have come from Ireland with emi- 
grants. They say that one-third of the poorer 
sort would leave, were "it not for their poverty. — 
.¥. r. Jotir. 

1790, March 4. — Notwithstanding tlie apparent 
scarcity of corn and wheat, we are told, there are 
great quantities iu every p;vrt of the country, which 
could not be brought to market on account of the 
bad traveling during the winter season, there hav- 
ing been no snow. The price will soon be reduced 
as the river is not obstructed by ice. — N. Y. Jour. 

1790, Maij 21.— Vote of Long Island for a 
member of Congress : 





Suffolk. 


Queens. Kin^s. 


James Town.scnd,* 


5 


581 


6 


John Vanderbilt, 


- — 


64 


209 


William Floyd, - 


106 


47 


S3 


Thomas Trodwell, - 


- 232 


4-5 


7 


Ezra L'llommcdieu, 


7 


139 


I 


1790, Maij 2o.— Vote of Queens 


County for four 


Members of Assembly : 








Samuel Clowes, 


. 


, 


485 


John Schenek, - 


. 


. 


397 


Samuel L. Mitchell, 


. 


. 


386 


Nathaniel Lawrence, 


- 


- 


383 


Whitehead Cornell, 


- 


1 


353 


Timothy Cornell, 


- 




324 


Stephen Carman, 


- 


- 


322 


Lewis Coniwall, - 


- 


- 


313 


William Cook, 


- 


- 


213 


John Hewlett, - 


- 


- 


125 



"]7!K), May &■?. — DieO, TuesJay last, after a long illness, 
!it Jcricbo, James Towaseiid, Ksq., returned by tlic can- 
vassers na elected to Congress from Long Island. — A'. 1'. 
Jour, 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



75 



X790. — AVasliiup;toii, in liis diary, says : Tues- 
day, AjKil 20tli, about eight o'clock, having previ- 
ously sent over my servants, horses and carriage, I 
crossed [from New York] to Brooklyn and pro- 
ceeded to Flatbush ; thence to New Utrecht, where 
■we dined at the house of Mr. Barro,- the mnn oblig- 
ing, but littlo' else to recommend it ; thence to 
Gravesend, thence to Jamaica, where wc lodged 
at a tavern kept by one Warnc, a pretty good and 
decent house. Left Jamaica at eight o'clock for 
Hempstead, where we baited at the house of one 
Simonson, formerly a tavern, now of private enter- 
tainment for money. Following the south road 
we dined at Ketcham's, which had also been a 
])ublic honse but now a private one — received pay 
for what it furnished, very neat and decent. After 
dinner wo proceeded to a Squire Thompson's such 
a house as the last. About eight o'clock, Thurs- 
da}', we left Mr. Thompson's and halted awhile at 
one Green's, distant eleven miles, and dined at 
Hart's tavern, in Brookhaven, five miles further. 
From Harfs we struck across the Island, passing 
the east end of the Brushy Plains and Corum, 
thence to Setauket to the house of Captain Ivoe, 
which is tolerably decent with obliging jK'oplc in 
it. At eight o'clock, Friday, we left Ko(;?s and 
baited the horses, at a widow Blydenburgh's, 
Smithtown, a decent house. Thence to Hunting- 
ton, where we dined at the bouse of a widow Piatt, 
which was tolerably good. . Afterwards proceeded 
to Oj'stqrbay, to the house of a Mr. Youngs, pri- 
vate and very neat and decent, where wo lodged. 
Left Mr. Youngs' before six o'clock on Saturday, 
and passing Musquito Cove breakfasted at a Mr. 
Ouderdonk's, at the head of a little bay, [Hemp- 
stead Harbor] '■where wc were kindly received and 
well entertained. This gentleman worits a grist 
and two paper-mills, the last of which he seems to 
carry on with spirit and to profit. Hence to 
Flushing where we dined ; - thence through New- 
town to Brooklj-n, the road very fine and the 
country in a high state of cultivation. Before 
sundown we had crossed the ferry and were at 
home.* 

1700. — Died, "Wednesday, June 23d, univer- 
sally regretted, the Rev. Mr. Bloomcr.t Kector of 
the Episcopal Church, Jamaica, aged fifty-five 
years. 

1790, Jime 1. — Vegetation was never iii a more 
flourishing state. There is a prospect of exube- 
rant harvests of fruit and wheat. Industry and 

'For a more full accoimt. aud the observations of Wash- 
ington on the agricultuie of. Long Islauil, see his diary, 
edited by B. .J. Lossing, New York, ]dGl. 

tMr. Blcfonicr was a most excellent man. . He had once 
failed in business in New York, and when, in after years, 
he received some mon<-y he devoted it to the payment of, 
his dfbts. Having once married a- couple where a largo 
- fee might have been expected, he was asli-ed.next day, the 
amount of it. " Oh,. I. had foj-gotten. all about it," he re- 
plied. " It must be in my otlier pocket.'.' On searcliin"- 
for it, two or three guineas were found wrapped in a paper! 
He was buried in the chaacel of the chm-ch. — Ed. 



18 



agricultural skill continue characteristic of our yeo- 
manry, and Heaven smiles on their labors. Ame- 
ricans will annually deposit abundant stores of the 
staples of life for the supply of distant climes, ad- 
vancing with strides imperceptible, the riches of 
this rising Empire. — N. Y.. Journal. 

1790, Sept. 3. — The dysentery is very prevalent 
in several parts of Long Island, and particularly at 
and near Jamaica, whero it has proved fatal in 
many instances, several firmilics having been de- 
prived of their beloved ofl'spring in a few days. A 
number of adults have also died with it. It seems 
to be epidemical. SejJtember 17th. It has sub- 
sided entirely. — N. Y. Journal. 

1790, Sept. 28. — Died, at Jamaica, in the prime 
of life, to the inexpressible grief of an affectionate 
hiuiband. and relatives, and of all who had the 
pleasure of her acquaintance, Mrs. JIary, the ami- 
able consort of Dr. Jacob Ogden and daughter of 
James Depeyster, Esq., of that place. — K. Y. 
Joifrnah 

1790, Oct. 29.— Died, ou Tuesday, aged eighty- 
seven, William Hawkshurst, merchant of New 
York. He was interred in the family burying- 
grouiid, Oysterbay. 

1790, Nov. 8. — David Devore, for stealing a 
horse of Stephen Bobbins, worth ,£5, is sentenced to 
receive, immediately', thirty-nine lashes ou his bare 
back, and the like every forty-eight hours until he 
shall have received one hundred and fitty-six lash- 
es, and then to depart Queens County. — Court 
liecords. 

1790, Nov. 2i.— Bled, at Oysterbay, at an ad- 
vanced age, aftea- a long and painful illness, Samuel 
Towuseud, Senator of this State. 

1790, Dec. 9. — "Winter has set in with great se- 
verity. The North Eiver is fast bound with ice 
to the city of Hudson: Repine not at the early 
frost, we have had.a fruitftil season. December 13. 
"We have had rain, and since Friday it is as mild 
as May. — N. Y. Journal. 

1190, Dec. 11.— Mr. Gilbert Seaman, of Flush- 
ing, felPoverboard of Captain Thomas H. Smith's 
passage boat a little above UcUgate, and was 
drowned. 

1790— $.59 i?«rarfrfor thief and money. Stolon 
from David Lambcrson, Jamaica, on the night of 
December 17th, a silver watch, ^£70 in crowns, 
dollars and small silvcr.and. as much more in bank- 
notes and York paper. Also, a number of notes 
and bonds, a worsted pocket-book, a red morocco 
pocket-book with an almanac bound in it and a 
parchment poeket-book, dated 1776, and marked, 
" D. L."* 

1791, Jan. 3. — The old year has gone out like a • 

*The robber was William Talman, of New Jersey. He 
was for a time in Queens County jai! ; hut was executed at 
Woodbridge, July d3d, 1791, for burglary and horse steal- 
ing — Daily AiheTther. 



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roaring lion and tlic new one is ushered in by fierce 
north wind.". The cold has been extreme for some 
day.^ past, ■with some snow and floating ice. Jan- 
uary Gth, there is a prospect of a January thaw 
that will doubtless open the wood sluices, and ren- 
der it tolerably ciicap in a few days. Hickory is 
d£i per cord ; other wood, £.3. January 10th. 
Siucc our last the weather is propitious and wood 
Las fallou 205. and 245. in the cord — X. Y. Jour- 
nal. 

1791, Jan. 24. — For sale, the pleasantly situated 
farm of near 300 acres, ou the coiuitry road from 
Brooklyn to Jamaica, now occupied by Eiehard 
and Samuel lietts, eleven miles .from New York. 
There arc thirty acres of meadow which constitutes 
an inexhaustible source of manure for the upland ; 
also, a large commodious house, spacious Dutch 
barn and otlier out-buildings, an orchard ot the fin- 
est fruit, and sufficient woodland. Apply to Nich- 
olas Fish, who will give title. 

1791, Feb. 19.— Silas llicks, Ilockaway, peti- 
tions the Legislature for a re-imbursement of £00 
paid by him, in 1782, to Frederick Philips for a 
negro man slave. 

For the A'cic Yurk Journal. 

Mr. GREEXLEAF : By inserting the enclosed 
ill the next Journal, you will much oblige 

A Constant Keadek. 

Podicul Ejiislle to the Electors qf Rein-csentutifC. 
cinr;i;L.\B. 
Throughout the laiul, Dear 8ir, 'tis .said. 
That Jemmy Towii.seiid'.s surely (lend ; 
A mail whom much, the people loved 
I.s from this wicked world removed : 
Ha.s lauded on that unknowu shore 
Whence mortals can return no more : 
And changed his seat in Congress hero 
l-'or one among the Spirits there, 
liut though a loss the public shared 
I hope this lo.ss can lie rcjiaired, 
.Since men as good as he are found 
in varioUK part.? the country round : 
Therefore we ought no more to mourn 
The dead ; hut to the living turn, 
And seek a mau of talents meet 
To till tir aforesaid vacant seat. 

My friend.s who search with keenest view 
The Southei* District, through and througli. 
Declare upon their word, they si)y 
No person half so fit as I. 
] low true thi'y speak ! I well revolved 
The whole allair, and then resolved, 
With view to benefit tin' .State, 
To be an open Candidate ; 
And to the world in tinuest tone. 
To make my grand intentions known. 

Now, Sir, for fear that I should miss it. 
These modest lines arc to solicit 
Your vote, your interest, and your friends, 
To aid my patriotic ends. 
And place mo safe, where sense like aiino, 
Mav in the Federal councils shine ; 
Thiit so South Hempstead, charming town, 
Possessed of wouderfid renown. 
In sly election's cunning ways. 
Since Jones' and Cornwell's glorious days. 
May still keep np her ancient name. 
And fix, beyond dispute, her claim 
To Rule, the District by the means 
So long employed to manage Queens. 



I fear the votes dispersed will be : 
But lest too few shoHJd fall to nie 
I further hope and wish you'd strive 
To keep election-zeal alive ; 
And make them every mother's son 
Or vote for mc, or vote for none. 

Some folks, I'm told, are warm t' espouse 
The cause of grave old Daitihj Chiircs, 
Who, when he moves within the sphere 
Of Justice, or of Scrivener, 
Does pretty well ; but when the creature 
Afl'ect.s a seat in Legislature, 
He brings to miud, as E.sop jokes, 
The frog who swelled to be an ox. 

There's Ledyanl too, whose high pretence 
To be a man of wondrous sense, 
Uetrays at first unwary hearts 
To think he's got uncummon parts ; 
Hut soon, I know, the curious eye 
Can deep deception tlierc descry. 
Which lurks bene.ith the film of lawn 
That's o'er his shallow senses drawn ; 
Like Moloch, recks he not .a curse. 
Of (lod, or Hell, or what not w-or^e. 

They say that whittling Carman too 
Displays himself to public view 
Ami vainly hoi>es his courteous mien 
Will coax the folks to put him iu : 
— Ah, Stephen .' .'Stephen ! lower thy pride. 
And cast thy politics aside ; 
For since tlij- influence is grown 
So small beyoml thy native town, 
'T will be impossible to get 
'Mong Kepresentatives a sent, 
Until the clams, and horsefeot, each 
Inhabiting the bays and beach 
Shall pain a vote ; and to content them 
Thyself be sent to represent them. 

Much interi'st. no doubt, 's employed. 
For Tredwell, Vanderbilt and Floyd, 
W hose names each warm elector rings 
Through Kichmond, SutVolk and iu Kings; 
15ut here, sir, note the reg'lar plan ; 
Since Suffolk first su]iplied the man, 
'Tis now the time for (Queens to choose. 
Or else, by George, her choice she'll lose, 
'Tis, therefore, wise that all agree 
On some otie man, and / he he. 

Last night I dreamed, (and dreams you know. 
Do sometimes mighty matters show,) 
That when the canvassing w.as o'er, 
" Youus MiichiH bent me, ten to four.** 
I started, waked and told my sjiouso 
'Twas time I instantly should ronse, 
Drive on to York with swiftest pace. 
To Mother Shoulilrrs state my case. 
And hear 'till I no more coiihl doubt it, 
The lioldamo tell me all .about it. 
My mind was in a woful (pialm ; 
The gro])iug witch explored my palm ; 
Then viewed my cards ; and with a look 
That chilled my soul, this riddle spoke ; 
" A chosen youth, whose virtues sleep 
Like Diiriil's when he Icept the sheep. 
Shall guard w ith care each |)caccful town 
And knock the huge Goliah down.'' 

Although this pmiihecy is bad, 
And m;ikes me feel severely sad. 
Vet still I'll iiersevere to eiiiirt 
The people all to grant sujiporf ; 
If, Sir, you can atl'ord me your's, 
I'll love you while my life endures, 
And be the gratefulest of creatures. 
Your Friend and Sen-ant, H.titiiY Peters.* 

"This poetical effusion though purjiortlng to be written 
bv llarrv Peters, caiidid.-ite for C'cpiigress was probably the 
sportive ■cllusion of Dr. S. L. Jlitchell, who was himself a. 
candidate for the Assembly. — Ed. 



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1791, Feb. 2."<. — For sak", a farm of eighty acres, 
in good fcucc, -with fresli and salt meadow, at Far 
Kockawa_y, pleasantly sitnated, one mile from the 
Eeacli. On it arc a house and barn, with a ^^•ell 
at -the door. Apply to John Rothing, ucar tlie 
pi-emises, who will give the title. 

1791. — At a meeting of a number of the inhabi- 
tants of Jamaica and Flushing, March 1st, at the 
house of Mrs. Joainia Hiuchmau, in Jamaica, for 
the pui-jjosc of carrying into effect the building of 
au Academy in Jamaica, the Rev. Rynier Van 
Nest in the chair, and Eliphalet "Wickes, clerk, it 
was resolved that twelve persons be appointed for 
tlie purpose of getting subscriptions, viz. : Xatlnm 
"Woodhull, William Ilammel, Francis Lewis, John 
Hicks, Abraham Ditmars, Daniel Miuema, iSeorge 
Faitoute, James Foster, Samuel Brownjohn, Joiiu 
Smith, Daniel Kissani and Charles Roach.* 

1791, March 7. — Lawrence Roe offers for sale, 
his farm of two hundred aud forty acres, at 
Whitestonc, on the banks of the East River, fifteen 
miles from New York, by water, aud twenty by 
laud. The situation is charming, the soil excellent 
aud the buildings in perfect repair. 

QUF.EX.S County, April H\i, 1791. 

Mr. GueenleAF : The spirit of electioneering 
increases rapidly iu many parts of this county, 
as the following curious notification (which v/as 
taken verbatim from au advertisement posted in 
several parts of South Hempstead) will evince. 

A Customer. 

1. 1 beg leaf to retiu'ii my sensear thanks to the Public 
intjeneral for their time past tiwors, tliat I have Eec'd from 
time to thne. 

2. I am sorry atul a shamed that any man shouUl offiT to 
come into our neighborhood to by our freedoiu for a Jriuk 
of grog-. 

3. As for my part I deelair I am not iutrnsted in tlie mat- 
ter. I do not wfint Post nor Profit theirby. 

4. I think it the duty of evei-y Good man to keep up the 
Credit of his Counfrcy, or the place wair he lives. 

5. I do tliink it our duty to resent every evil tliat 
should be aft'ered in our neig-liborhood that should Engor 
the Credit of our jilace. 

6. I have provided «ue b.arrcl of Rum : and two. if want- 
ed. AU those that will favor me with their Componey on 
Saterday afternoon, the 2 day of April, I shall esteam their 
compeney as a favor. 

7. This Rum is given Grattig^ no favor is IJe Quired. 
Pray dont fail. From your friend Living in south hemp- 
stead. I- c D X. 

March 2(i,.179]. 

A true copy verhatim. 

. N. B. The candidate for wliose interest this treat 
is intended, is supposed to be jS n C u. 

1791, April 14. — $5 Bewarcl and charges. Ran 
away from William Levericli, Newtown, a negro 
boy, Mingo, aged fifteen, pitted with the small-pox. 

I'or the Bailij Adccrfiscr. 

Jamaica, April 19, 1791. 
Mess. Printer.^ : A? the county of Queens 

"Subscription lists were circulated in Jamaica, Flushing, 
Newtown and New Yoi-k ; and wlieu £.-'i)0, the sum in- 
tended to be subscribed, was made U]), James Mackerel 
was requested to report a plan of the Academy, « liich he 
did, and was thereupou appointed master builder. — Ed. 



has for some time ]iast been destitute of a Senator, 
and as this part of the county has never aspired to 
the honor of nominating one, they flatter them- 
selves (on the principle of rotation) that their claim 
is well foaudeil, and tire person chosen will merit 
the suffrages of his fellow citizens. 

At a meeting of the freeholders and electors ef 
Newtown, Flushing and Jamaica, held at .Jamaica, 
Benjamin Coe in the chair ; it was resolved that 
Dr. Isaac Ledyard be held up as a Representative 
in Congress, and that Francis Lewis, Jr., Escp, 
be held up as a State Senator and that the clerk 
transmit copies of these resolutions to the sheriff' of 
the different counties of the District with a rcc[ue3t 
tliat he communicate the Same to the several town- 
ships. 

17'01.— Vote for member of Congress (in place 
of Dr. James Townsend, deceased,) on the last 
Tuesday in April. 

t? < ^ t 



Richmond, IGG 

Kings - - - 2o 2.'>5 

Queens, - - 2t)6 CO 

Suffolk. - - - 434 — 



Total, - - G6G 4ril 3G9 361 300 301 

Vote (in part) for tivo Senators of the Southern 
District .: 







?2 




1 




S 1" 

" 


i} 


77 


9 







21 


33 


21 


29 


208 


30 


338 


272 


3 


2r:9 


1 


— 





c ;j 

•.2. 


' * 5 








Ri/.-lmioud, 


- 129 


15.? 


2 


46 


1 


KiUgl!, - 


77 


300 


65 


45 


68 


Queens, 


- - 353 


282 


403 


7 


234 


Suffolk, - 


- 404 


51 


279 


5o 





Total, - - - 9G3 786 749 151 303 

Vote of Queens County for three members of 
Assembly : 

Whitehead Cornell,* - - 721 

Samuel Clowes,'* - - - 71.5 

Nathaniel Lawrence,* - - 4-51 

Richard Tlwrne, - - - 384 

Isaa« Leffer-ts, - . . 34.5 

S. L. Mitchell, - - - . 254 

1791, Ajvil 30.— Died, Thursday night, at his 
seat near Flushing, Robert Crommelin, aged sev- 
entj--five, a much respected inhabitaut of that 
place. — Du ihj Adv-crtiscr. 

1791, 2[.i>j 10.— $20 Reieard.—Vixw away from 
Flushing, two negro men, one Aaron, the property 
of Jeremiah Vauderbilt, who had on a fustian 
trowsers and wool hat, aud is a good boatman ; the 
other, Polydore, the proiierty of Francis Lewis, 
who wore a blue cloth jacket and breeches, woolen 
stockings aud wool hat. They stole a moses-built 

•Elected. 



78 



QUEENS COUNTY 



boat and -wont up the Sound, as is supposed. — 
DaiJij Athcrtlscr. 

1791, Jinie 2. — c^ Ji&icar(I:—Jti\n away from 
Obiuliali Valnntinc, Oj'sttn-bay, a remarkiibly black 
negro mm. Bob, aged twenty-two.. JI'c had on a 
browu coat with green lining, yellow vest and old 
boots, lie lias grey liair on liis neck. 

1791, June 7. — John Van No.-;trand vcspectfiilly 
informs the public that the .Taniaica Stagt,' will nm 
Jlonda}', 'I'lnu-.^day and Saturday, starling from 
Mrs. Hinchniau's at 7. o'clock in the morning, aud 
from 3Ir. Allen's, Brooklyn I'erry, at haU'-pa-t four 
in the aftenio.in. Fare, 2s. Oil. Letters and bag- 
gage C! refully attended io. 

N. B. Ho has a new and casj- carriage, and for 
the convenience of those who wish to go turther, he 
has one at Jamaica. 3d. for each letter, and none 
forwarded unless the money be left with it. 

1791, June 15. — To the jxihlic. — Etisij- convey- 
ance. — Jacob and Stephou Ilieks have, for the 
convenience of parties of ple;isun% )irovided a light 
etage- wagon to run with two good genteel horses 
■with a careful driver, from John IJiiks', Brooklyn 
Ferry .=tairs, to F.ir IJoekaway, evj-y Tuesday, at 
fight o'clock, aud every Saturday, at one o'clock ; 
Stop at Jamaica fur refreshment and go through 
the same day ; aud return ^Monday and Friday af- 
ternoons. Seats, 25. (Jd. to Jamaica, and Us. to 
Ear Rockaway. Idilbs. baggage gratis ; 150 Jbs. 
the same as a passenger. 

1791. — At day-break, on the 4th of July, the 
bells of tlie ehurehes in J.-iiuaica, aud lliirt<'eu pla- 
toons from an active aad well di.'iei[)liiu'il coiupaiiy 
of ]j'ght Infantry, announced the joj'ous day. At; 
twelve o'clock the company a.ssembled- at Jlrs. 
lliuchman's long room, (which was decorated in a 
Style emblematical- of the union of tliese States, 
■with branches of tlie pine tree, and a pleasing dis- 
tribution of the flowers of the season) proceeded to 
the I'resbyterian church, where an eloquent oration 
was delivered by the llcv. Mi-. Faitoute. After 
which the comjjany returned to an elegant dinner, 
where the utmost conviviality and gntHl liHHior per- 
vaded every breast, and whii*,- amidst th^^ heart 
enlivening song aud warlike sound ot musketry, 
the following toasts were drank. 'J'lie company 
broke up in good season and in the greate.*t hila- 
rity ruul good humor: 

1. The United States of America — may their 
virtues aud wisdom be eouspiyiious among the na- 
tions of the earth. 

2. The President. 

o. The Congress of the United States. 

4.. The Government of the State of New York. 

5. The late American Army, and uK-mory of 
those Heroes who gallantly fell, contending for the 
indejiendciice of our country. 

(i. 'J'iie Kin;.; of the Freuehmeu aud the National 
Assembly of France. 

7. Arts, Science aud ^lanufactories — m ly they 
become the never-liiiling source of wealth and hon- 
or to our country. 



S. The ]iromoters of Commerce — may it flourish 
throughout the United States. 

0. The Cincinnati; 

10. 'i'he Tamimmy Society or Columbian Order. 

Ih The Military of- America— may their merit 
f Iways find its true reward. 

12. The industrious husbandmen — may their 
honest labors be crowned with plenty and success. 

13. The Am-rican flag — miy it be the emble- 
matic banner of liberty iu every quarter of the 
globe. 

14. The cauthor of the"Ilights of Man," aud 
the Patriotic Societies in Great Britain. 

Ij. The glorious 4ih of July, 177G.* 

1791, Jitli/ 12. — For sale, the country retreat of 
Robert Crommeliu, Esq., deceased, contaiuiug fifty 
acres, Ij'iug contiguous to Flushing Landing. 

1791, Juli/ 23. — Jacob Chceseman, of North 
H^lnpstead, being cjn the Marsh, iu .South Hemp- 
st(-ad, and undertaking to swim across a certain 
creek was drowned. 

1791, Aug. 7. — Henry Ludlam, returning from 
Oysterbay to his boat, along Mill-neek shore, 
stumbled in getting his boat and unfortunately fell 
and was drowned. 

1701 , Sitpt: 7.— SIO. JlcKftnl and eli.-ages. Ran 
away from John Luyster, Cedar Swamp, a negro 
fellow, Zel), aged twenty, stout, large-boned and 
middling black. 

1791, Of-<. 13>-Beaver Pond Races. First day, 
a jmrse ni £20 ; sifoud day, a genteel saddle, bri- 
dle and'^\-liip to be run for. — Dail// Adrerliscr. 

1791, Ocf. 17.— Died, at North Hemi>strad, 
Timothy Smith, at an advanced age ; for many 
years first Judge. of Queens Couuty. Ivi hiui the 
])ublic have lost a valuable citizen, the widow an 
atl(,t'ti/i)n,ii* and loving husband, aud the children a 
teuiU-r and kind Uthcv.—Uail>/ Adrciiiscr. 

1791, Ik'c. 21. — The season is mild ; nut-wood 
sells from 106'. 0(/. to 11a'., aud oak, 7s. 6d. to 8s. 
per load. 

1792, Jiin. ^.^.--^ Harrj- Peters offers for sale Lis 
highly uiiinnred farm, of one hundred aud fifty 
iiuvv/, which cuts hfty loads of hay annually, situ- 
ated in Soivt-li -Hempstead, within forty rods of two 
ehinehes.. i>n it are a large house, barn and other 
necessarv out-houses, and an. orchard. Its {deas- 
ant, salubrious aud public situation, with the great 
privilege of comuinnage in tlicj)lains and marshes, 
(enabling tlie ])r()priil.ir to keep what stock he 
pleaM.^) make it an object worth the attention of. 
the farmer, trader or private gentleman. 

"Tlio Anniversary of. Amcricnn Imtppeudcnce was cele- 
bniteil at .Jjuiiaiin, in ITf'.t. by tlic ringing of bolls, the dis- 
jilnvof till' t'nili'il State.s tliifj mul rppeatoti di.sclinrp.? from 
11 |"iicc-<; iif artillci-v. Au oratimi w.ns dcliverpd by Is.iac 
lAdvard, who jiresidcd at tlio IVstiv.il, wliirc the ii.siinl 
fi.asts wcTC .bank. ,Jii.seiih Kobinson, Abraham Ditinars 
and William Lawruiicr, i:.si|., rc(jiie.sted n copy ( f ih • ora- 
tion, which was printed iu the >cw Yirk llcUy Museum, 
No. CI— £</. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



79 



1792, Jan. — Gabriel "William and Gary Liicllow 
ofier for sale the farm, now in occnpatiou of Oliver 
Templeton,* consisting of two liundrod and eighty 
acres, forty of which is wood-land and thirty salt- 
meadow. One hundred loads of salt hay and 
thirty of timothy and clover may be cut in common 
seasons. It is in a pleasant part of the country, 
three miles from Jamaica, four from Newtown, six 
from Flatbush and nine from Brooklyn ferry, and 
iu the neighborhood of the best fishing and fowling, 
where great supplies may be procured with little 
trouble. 

1792, Fed. 6. — Joseph Pearsall offers for sale 
his highly manured plantation of one hundred 
acres, twenty of which is woodland, pleasantly 
situated on the cast side of Cow Bay. It has a 
variety of excellent fruit. The house is commodi- 
ous, and has seven rooms ou a floor, and an even 
kitchen with a pump of good water iu it, and milk- 
room adjoining-. There are from two thousand five 
hundred to three thousand locust trees of from 
twelve to eighteen years growth, which, in a few 
years, will be profitable for ship building. 

1792, Feb. 6. — Albert Hoogland, Flushing, of- 
fers for sale cheap, for no fault but only for want 
of eniploj', a negro wench, aged thirty, who under- 
stands all kinds of country house-work, with her 
two children, a girl aged eighteen, and boy aged 
six. — Bii'dij Advertiser. 

1792, Fei. 1-5. — John Dudley,! during the Revo- 
lutionary war, bought, for .£1,200, the house of 
George Folliot, Jamaica, which had been confis- 
cated to the State. He is now old and lame, and 
as he can get nothing from Folliot, he petitions the 
Senate of New York for relief.— CoZ. Mss., 102. 

1792, Feb. 16. — For sale, the farm of Jonathan 
bright, deceased, Fhishing, one mile from the 
town-landiug, containing one huudrcd and sixty 
acres, with an orchard of apples and pippins, 
young growing woodland, and fresh and salt mea- 
dow. 

1792. — To be sold, at private sale, on or before 
February, 22d, a LARGE OX, between six and 
seven feet high, and better than eight feet six 
inches in circumference, and is now fat and fit for 
butchering. Anj^ person who would wish to pur- 
chase may enquire at Hincliman's tavern, or to 
Daniel Lndlam, the' owner, ono and a half miles 
cast of Jamaica. — BaUij Advertiser. 

1793, Feb. 22. — Siah, a negro, and Anthony, a 
slave of Lawrence Hewlett, were frozen in South 
Hempstead by the inclement weather. 

1792, Feb. 29.— For sale, the farm of Jacob 
Moore, Newtown, ou the road to Jamaica, within 
half a mile of David Titus' mill on the creek lead- 
ing to Flushing Bay, containing forty-five acres. 
Sedge drifts ou it. 

*He was an auctioueer and stock broker in New York. — 
Ed. 

tDuclIey kept a bakery where Remseu's hotel now is. — 
Ed. 



1792. — John and Peter Hendricksou, Foster's 
Meadow, oifer for sale, at vendue. May 1st, the 
valuable form of Isaac Heudrickson, lately de- 
ceased, containing one hundred and fifty acres, a 
good house, barn, and bearing orchard. 

Mr. GreENLEAF : On Tuesday, May 1st, 
1792, the Academy, in Jamaica, called Union Hall, 
pursuant to an advertisement in your poaper, was 
opened for the reception of students. I was pres- 
ent and participated iu all that satisfaction which 
generally arises from the establishment of such in- 
institutions, and was highly pleased with the cere- 
mony observed on the occasion, by the trustees of 
the seminary. By inserting the following you will 
oblige a CUSTOMER. 

About twelve o'clock the Trustees moved in 
procession from Hincliman's Inn, Jamaica, to the 
Hall, the Secretary being in front and bearing the 
charter granted by the Regents. On arriving at 
the Academy, they were conducted by the master 
builder to the Hall. The company then being 
seated, a Psalm was sung by a number of j-oung 
ladies and gentlemen, selected for the purpose. An 
oration was delivered by Abraham Skinner, Esq., 
to a verj' numerous and respectable audience, and 
an ode (compossd by the Rev. George Faitoute, 
suited to the occasion) being chanted, concluded 
the business. 

The Trustees then returned to the inn, and be- 
ing honored with the company of several strange 
gentlemen, as well as others of the village, dined 
together. After dinner a number of well adapted 
toasts and sentiments were drank ; the whole was 
conducted with the greatest harmony and good 
humor. 

N. B. Attendance will be given at Union Hall, 
on Monday morning the 21st of May, by Mr. 
Maltby Gelston, a gentleman of approved cliarac- 
ter and abilities. The prices for which tuition may 
be had are : for the Latin and Greek languages, 
mathematics, &c., <£6 per annum ; writing, arith- 
metic and English grammar, ^£4 ; reading, writing 
and arithmetic, c€3.4 ; reading and writing, ,£2,S ; 
reading only c£2. 13oard may be had on very 
reasonable terms. 

Subscribers for building an Academy at Jamai- 



John Allen, 


£3 


.Toliu Amliorman, 


2 


William Ballard, 


3 


Robert Benson, 


2 


Richard Betts, 


1 


Baruet Bennet, 


4 


Epliraim Bayles, 


2 


Daniel Bnyles, 


.S 


Leonard Blocker, 


.5 


Edward Bardin, 


10 


Joseph Beeslej', 


] 


Cornelius J. Bogert, 


a 


Aury Boenmi, 


] 


William Buckle, 


5 


James Burling, 


?, 


.Tacob Beadle, 


1 


Samuel Brownjohn, 


10 



Benjamin Carpenter, 
William C'aqienter, 
iWhitehead Cornell, 
Lewis Cornwall, 
jThomas Comwell, 
jCornelius Cre^d, 
William Creed, 3d, 
'Benjamin Coe, 
;William Creed, Jr., 
Charles C'romnielin, 
.Sylvester Cornell, 
Slatthew M. Clarkson, 
Governor Clinton, 
Robert C'rommelin, 
James Cummin<^, 
.James Depeyster, 
Abraham Ditmars, Jr., 



£3.4 
1 
3 
3 
1 
2 

2 
2 



1 

10 

10 

10 

o 

30 



-19 



so 



(;t u E E X s c u X T y 



/'' 



bamuol Deuton, 3 

James Denton, 8 

John Dcwiut, 5 

John Dixon, 1 

Ilcnry Dawson, . 2 
Abraham Ditniors, 5 

Jarvis Dobljs, 3 

Thomas Durie, 2 

John Duryc, 2 

Aaron Diirje, 1 

John Dudley, 3 

John Evcrs, 2 

Samuel Eldcrt, 1 

Heudiiek Eldcrt, 1 

Nicholas Everitt, 10 

WiUiani Edgar, 20 

Rev. George Fiiitoute, 10 
Robert I'uriuan, 5 

Seth Fairehild, 3 

William Forbes, 4 

Thomas Faireliild, 1 

James Foster, 25 

Samuel Forbes, 5 

■\Vaters Forbes, 2 

Luke Fleet, 10 

.John Faulkner, 2 

Matthew Farriugton, 1. 4 
James Ilerriuian, 30 

StL])beu llerriman, 35 
Joanna llinehmau, 20 
Richard Holland, 2 

Jonah Uallet. 3 

John Hinchman, 4 

Bernardus llendrlckson, 5 
John J5. Hicks, 4 

Rev. t\'illiani liammcll, 4. 5 
Henry Higbie, 1 

Daniel Higbie, 2 

Hcndrick Jicndrickson, 5 
William Hendrickson, 1 
Richard Harrison, 2 

Albert Hoogland, 

3 loads timber. 
1 
5 
5 
5 
2 



jUcxander SIcComb, 
Patrick MacDavitt, 
John Jlnrray, 
Dr. Jaeiib Ogdon, 
Richard Piatt, 
AVilliam Prince, 
Jo.sejih Robinson, 
James Renwick, 
Michael Ritter, Jr., 
XatLaniol Rhoades, 
Abiathar Rhoades, 
■lames Smith, 
Christopher Smith, 
Abraham Skinner, 
ilel.incton Smith, 
James Southard, 
Mary Smith, 
Rem Sncdeker, 
Femctie Snydnm, 
John Smith, Sr., 
Daniel Smith, 
Jolm .Sn»ith, .Jr., 
Silvester Smith, 
John I. Skidmoro, 
Joshna Sands, 
ICliphalet Stratton, 
Thomas H. Smith, 
Ca]itain John Smith, 
Nichola.s Smith, 
Olhniel Smith, 
Abigail Skidmore, 
David Sproug, 
Jacob Smith, 
Piatt Smith, Jr., 
John Trouji, 
Roliert Troup, 
Joseph Totten, 
Richard Thoruo, 
David Titus, 
lienjamin Tlnirston, 
John Thatford, 
Daniel Tuthill, 
Abraham Tuthill, 



6. 
1 
2 

10 

10 

2 

10 

3 

I 

2 

15 

5 

15 

10 

5 

3 

2 

1 

2 

G 

2 

3 
2 



I. 

a 

3 
10 

1 

5 

10 

10 

10 

2 



1.12 



4 
10 



Jonathan Jones, 1 James Van Lew, 

Martin Johnson, 5 Richard Van Dam, 5 

John Jav, 5 Rev. Ryuicr Van Nest, 5 

Daniel Kissam 5 John Van Lew.- 1 

Dr. William Lawton, 2 Jost Van Brunt, 3 

Isaac Leli'erts, Jr., 5 Abraham \i\n Arsdalc, 2 

Dr. Lsiunc LeJyard, 2 John A'anderbilt, 2 

Da-i-iJ Lamberson, 30 Samuel Vail, 5 

Waters Lamberson, 3 John Van Low, 

Nathaniel La\vreu';c, 5 John Van D>-nc, 10 

William Lewis, 1 Eliiihalet Wickes, 10 

Beniavdus Lamberson, 10 .John Williamson, 10 

Hendriek Lotf, 1 Samuel Welling, 3 

Fr.oucis Lewi.s, Jr., 4 Thomas Willet, 2 

AVilliam Ludlam, 3 James Willet. 2 

Nicholas Lndlum, 3 Lawrence Willet, 2 

Dr. Daniel Miuema, 10 James WoodhuU, 2 

James MorrcU, 2 .lames Waters, 20 

Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell, 3 William Warne, .''■ 

Uriah Mitchell, 2 William Waters, 10 

Lambert Moore, 2 Thomas Welling, 2 

James Mackrcl, 40 John WykolV, 4 

N.ath.aniel Mills, 10 Williiim Wilkin.s, 1.4 

Jacob Morton, 4 IStejihen Wnght, 3 

On the completion of the Academy a principal 
•was sotiglit for, aiul lotter.s sent to the llcv. Cave 
Jones,, (ieivlioni Williams, AVilliam Circcn and 
jM.altby Gclston. Tlie last Avas .appointed, receiv- 
ing for liis compensation the prolil^• nrising from 
the tuition of the scholais. The following text 
books were adopted by the Trustees : 

English.— I. The Monitor— to be read daily as 
the last lesson. 



2. Webster's Grammar — to be read, or repeated 
by memory. 

3. The Testament or Bible — to bo read by infe- 
rior scholars, and once a day by all. 

Latin. — 1. lloss', Kiiddiman's, or John Holmes' 
Grammar. 

2. Colloquia Corderii, Erasmus, Selectae Vetcris, 
Selectaj profanis, Nepos, /Esop's fables, Florus, 
Hair's Introduction, Caesar, Virgil, Cicero's Ora- 
tions and De Oratore, Horace. 

Greek. — Moore's Grammar, Testament, Lucian's 
Dialogues, the Cyropajdia, Louginus, the Iliad. 

Ilheforic. — Blair's Belles Lcttres. 

Geograplitj. — Guthrie's or Salmon's grammar. 

JIdtJicmalics. — Stone's Euclid, Martin's Trigo- 
nometry, or Warden's ^Mathematics. 

Among the Rules were the following : 

3d. Every scholar when the tutor, or any gen- 
tleman, comes in or goes out, shall rise up with a 
respectful bow. 

Tth. Every scholar shall be particularly careful 
to treat all men, and especially known superiors, 
with the greatest modesty and respect. 

The motto of tlie seal was : 

SiffiUum Aid(C Unilatis. Semper hiecat scieniiee 
sol. Within : Jlic lu.v et veritalis. 

In English : The se.al of Union Ilall. ^lay the 
sun of science always shine. Here be light and 
truth.]— iU 

1702, 2Iai) 18. — Uriah Pearsall begs leave to ac- 
quaint the public that he has erected a stage-wagon, 
calculated for tlic convenience of passengers from 
Kockaway and Brooklyn for the summer season. 
It will leave William Pearsall's tavern, Near 
Kockaway, Monday and Friday, at twelve o'clock, 
and return, Tuesday and Saturday, at eight pre- 
cisely, at the moderate price of 5s. each passenger. 
— Dady Adv. 

1792, June 2. — Died, at Jamaica, on Saturday 
last, sincerely regretted by all who knew him, 5Ir. 
Stephen llerriman. He was unfortuuately thrown 
from a chair, on the ISlli ult., and fractured his 
leg, of which he died. — Kcw York Wccldi/ Muse- 
um. 

1792, June 6. — Vote of Queens County : 

Corcnior. Sentilors. 



O 

a 

a 



72 









Oysterl.av, - - - 65 58 IG 23 107 6 17 

South H'empstead, 155 84 10 — 201) 1 113 

North Hemnstcad, - 68 GO 40 11 11!) 20 15 

Newtown, - - - 112 3S) 1 8 88 - 134 

Flushing, - - - - r,2 23 1 9 44 48 18 

Jamaica, 00 24 38 20 53 17 2! 



Total, 



- 532 288 115 71 620 92 318 



•Elected. 



IN OLDEN TIMES, 



81 



1792, Jitli) 5. — liieliard Belts, Newtown, wliile 
riding on the axle-tree of a bark-mill, where Peter 
Seaman was grinding bark with a horse, fell from 
it, and the wheel passed over and killed him. 

1792, Scj)t. 6. — $8 Rcivarcl and cJiarges. — Ran 
away from Abraham Polhemus, Newtown, a mu- 
latto fellow. Jack, aged sixteen, who had on a fus- 
tian coat rather small for him, and wears his hair 
tied. 

1792. — Died, August 2Sth, at Whcatlj, Jacob 
Titus, aged ninety. He lived to see the fifth gen- 
eration of his descendants, and has left surviving 
children, grand-children and great grand-children, 
&c., upwards of 250. — Daili/ Adv. 

1792. — The Beaver Pond Races begin October 
18th, (if fair weather) at half-past one o'clock. A 
purse of =£20 — the best of three two-mile heats. 
Entrance with William Warue, 205. The nest 
day a saddle, bridle and whip to be run for (free 
for any horse that did not run the first day) the 
best of three one-mile heats. SI, 00 entrance. 

P. S. Not less than three reputable horses to 
start. 

1792, Nov. 1. — Fox Hunting. — The hunt will 
be on Long Island, Friday next. The dogs will 
be cast ofi' at sun-rise that morning, in Mr. Dough- 
ty's woods, south of Jamaica. 

MARSH, Huntsman. 

1792, Dec. 11. — Leonard Lawrence offers for 
sale his farm of two hundred and fifty acres, with 
twenty of salt-meadow, two and a half miles from 
Flushing Landing. It is well timbered with abun- 
dance of young locust and other trees. On it are a 
barn, two hovels, new granary, crib, and chair- 
house. 

1792, Dec. 15.— Amos Mills offers for sale his 
farm of one hundred and forty, acres, at the east 
end of Jamaica. It has a stone well, and cuts fif- 
ty loads of timothy and clover. 

1793, tFan. 5. — A Long Island Iwr/ equal to a 
Connecticut wonder. — A FACT. — Mr. John Hutch- 
ings Smith, near Flushing, a few days ago killed a 
hog, of his own raising, which weighed, when 
dressed, six hundred and thirty-one pounds. 

1793, Jan. 9.— David Undorhill, Flushing, of- 
fers for sale his farm of one hundred acres, ten of 
salt meadow and ten of young timber, two and a 
half miles from the town. Ou it is a grist-mill 
with two run of stones, and plenty of water for a 
sloop to come along side for burthen. 

1793, Jan. 11. — John Simonson, Westbury, of- 
fers for sale his farm of one hundred and ten acres, 
thirty of which is woodland, three-quarters of a 
mile from the Meeting-house, and twenty-two from 
Brooklyn ferry, ou the main road to Huntington. 
Ou it are a crib, barn, smoke-house, chair-house, 
&c. , 

1793, Jan. 11. — James Burling, Flushing, offers 



for sale his farm, of over one hundred acres, in ex- 
cellent fence, one and a half miles from the land- 
ing. It has a large pond iu the centre for cattle, a 
variety of fruits, such as apples, pears, plums, 
cherries, peaches and apricots. There is a swamp, 
of thrifty wood affording suflicient firing for the 
place, also fresh and salt meadow producing suffi- 
cient hay for the farm. 

1793, Jan. 11.— S5 Iteivard and charges. — Ran 
away from Thomas Lawrence, Newtown, a negro 
boy, Harry, aged eighteen, of remarkably dark 
complexion. He had on a dark blue coating jack- 
et, checkered, light striped elastic vest, and dark 
mixed serge overalls. 

1793, Jan. 19. — For sale, a farm of one hundred 
and sixty-five acres, occupied by Creed & Mills, 
on which is a stone house, four miles west of Ja- 
maica and eight from Brooklyn ferry. 

1793, Jan. 24. — Judith Townsend, Oysterbay, 
offers for sale the farm of Esther Townsend, de- 
ceased, containing twenty-nine acres. It is a con- 
venient stand at the junction of three most public 
roads leading from different pai'ts of the town to 
the town mills and public landing. It has an ex- 
cellent land and water prospect, and would suit a 
private family, a tradesman, a store or tavern- 
keeper. The black grass and meadow are in full 
view of the house. 

1793, Jan. 26. — Caroline Bowne offers for sale 
a valuable farm in Flushing, two miles from the 
lauding, ou the main road to the east end of the 
Island, and sixteen miles from New York. It 
contains one hundred and seventy acres, fifty of 
which is woodland with a large quantity ot timber 
on it, and twenty acres of salt meadow. A large 
quantity of fresh gTass may be cut almost any 
year. On it are three orchards, a large barn, and 
work-shop with granary above. The stock and 
farming utensils, such as wagons, chairs, sleighs, 
plows, &c., will be sold at the same time. 

1793, Jan. 23. — Died, Martin Schenck, Treasu- 
rer of Queens County. John M. Smith was ap- 
pointed in his stead. 

1793, Fel. 12.— To lot, the pleasant and eligible 
house and farm of two hundred acres, and salt 
meadow, at Flushing, Bayside, at present in the 
tenure of William Ouvet and John Peck. It has 
a prospect of the Sound and ail vessels passing. 
The house is very large and two hundred yards 
from the river which is plentifully stocked with a 
variety of fish, that with a net can be drawn up 
on tlie beach in large quantities. Enquire of Eli- 
jah Pell, N. Y. 

1793.— Died, at Halifax, Feb. 16, Elizabeth, 
the amiable consort of Lawrence Hartshorue, mer- 
chant of that place, and daughter of Mr. William 
Ustick, of Flushing. — Daily Adv. 

1793. — To the electors of Queens County, At 
a respectable meeting of the electors of Newtown, 



s-^ 



QUEENS COUNTY 



at Abraham Rapclyc'.s, February 27th, Coloucl 
Daniel Lawrence iu the chair, it was requested 
that a correspondence should be entered into with 
the other towns of this county to fix ou a proper 
person to represent them iu the Legislature ; 

Ttcsdlvcd, That Isaac Corsa, John liawrcncc and 
Robert Moore, Esqrs., be a committee for that pur- 
pose ; 

llcsdlveil, That it is the intent of this meeting to 
support Samuel Eiker for Assembly. 

1793, Feb. 20. — Vote of Long Island for a mem- 
ber of Congress : 









£ '^ 




o:^ 


H- ' ^_^ 






II 




M 


Newlown, 


39 


7 


74 


Janiiiiea. 


- 31 


£3 


76 


Flnsliing', 


76 


yo 


1j 


Soutli Ilemiistcail, 


- 27 


431 


16 


Koilh HeiiiiKtc.id, - 


23 


f2 


31 


Ovotfib.iv, - 


- 104 


45 


153 


Suffolk County, 


44 


30 


1069 


Kin<,'s County, - 


- 4-25 


; 35 


12 



Totnl, .... 709 C73 1446 

1793, Fd). 2S. — George Townsend offers for 
sale the farm of Benjamin Townsend, deceased, at 
Jericho. It is not ini'erior to anj' and contains 
one hundred and sixty acres, forty of ■which is 
timbered. On it are a plenty of fruit trees, crib, 
smoke-house and chair-house. Near the farm is a 
one hundred acre lot of the Plain.? in good fence. 

1703. — At a numerous and respectable meeting 
of the electors of I'lusliing, Newtown and Jamaica, 
at 3Irs. Ilinclimau's, Jamaica, ^farcli 2d, JIajor 
Lewis Cornwall in the chair and Eliplialct Wickes, 
C'lerk ; it was voted and agreed, by a large majo- 
rity, that Dr. Isaac Lcdyard and John 1!. llicks, 
be held u]> as proper persons to represent this 
county in the Assembly. 

1793. — Simeon DeWilt, Surveyor-General, ad- 
vertises for sale, March .5th, at the house of Dan- 
iel Monfort, Norwidi, all the right and title of the 
people of the Stale of New York to the lands 
deemed to be forfeited by the attainder of Thomas 
Jones, viz: all the meadow, fresh and salt, Ij'ing 
ou the south side of Long Island, juining to the 
Beach, between the gut called JIassapage, west, 
or thereabout, and the west gut, called Jlerrick 
gut, and the hammocks and broken meadow lying 
between Oystcrbay meadow and the beach, with 
the privilege of the beach, to the salt sea. Deed 
given without warrantee. — iV. Y. Journal. 

1793, March 11. — Samuel Uuderhill, Flushing, 
ofi'ers for sale that jdcasant and advantageously 
situated jdace, of seventy acres of upland and four- 
teen of salt meadow, near the lauding, and adjoin- 
ing the place formerly of Robert Crommelin. On 
it is an orchard of apples, peaches, plums, &c. 

•Elected. 



1793, March 23.— Dr. S. L. Mitchell advises 
the farmers, a.s fencing stuff is becoming scarce, to 
plant hedges of the wliite mulbeiry* whose leaves 
would also yield food for the silk-worm.— 2)a% 
A ihertiscr. 

1793, March 2G.— Samuel Jackson offera for 
sale his farm, at Oysterbay, thirty-four miles from 
New York, near Cold Spring, and witliin oue mile 
of the landing, whence sloops attend the New 
York market weekly. It contains three hundred 
acres, of which two himdred is timber laud, the re- 
mainder ai'able. 

1793, March 2G. — Taken np a swimming, at 
Ilell-Gratc, by Caleb Schuyler, a horse, which is 
now on Barn Island. The owner may have him 
by paying all costs and charges accniing. If not 
claimed in two months, he will be sold to defray 
expenses. — Dailif Adv. 

1793, Jul;/ G.— William "\Varne informs the 
public in general and his former customers that he 
has furnisiicd himself with an elegant coachee suf- 
ficiently large to carry six passengers. It will 
run daily, except Sundays, from his house, Jamai- 
ca, at 7, and return from Mr. Allen's, Brooklyn 
ferrv, at 4, at the moderate iince of 2.s\ G(7. Let- 
ters and newspapers for customers earned gratis. 

1793, Sept. 18. — Bcnvcr Poiul Eaccs.—A purse 
of c£20 — entrance with "William "Warne, 20.?. The 
next day a race for a saddle, bridle and whip. 
Not less th.an three reputable horses to start.. 

1793, Sept. 24. — Edmund Ludlow, of New 
York, gentleman, was indicted in (.Queens County 
for an assault on Elizabeth Kcteltas, of Jamaica. 
He gave bail for his appear.auce at trial in the 
sum of jC2, 000— Carey and Gabriel AV. Ludlow, 
£1000 each; but he failed to appear and the 
Court ordered tliat their recognizances be estrcat- 
cd.t — Court Minutes. 

1793. — Absalom, otherwise called Bob, a negro, 
was tried, .September 21th, before Judge Lansing, 
for robbery and as.sault on Elizabetli ^lercier, 
Newtown, and sentenced to bo h.angcd, October 
2i)th, at the usual jdace of execution. The wit- 
nesses were Jonah Ilallet, John D. ]\rcrcier and 
AVilliam Lawrence. He was twenty-one weeks in 
jail. 

1793. Dec. 2. — Ch.arles Gallifar, schoolmaster, 
going from Hog Island to Oak Neck, being intoxi- 
cated with liquor, fell into the bay and was 
drowned instantly. 

1793, Dec. 21. — Slo Eetcard. — Ran away from 
Samuel Fish> Newtown, a negro man, I'ompcy, 
aged thirty, lie has a down look when spoken 
to and had his shoes tied witli strings. 



Tnstcail of prim formerly used, but killed liy fro.«t in 
1779-fn.— K(/. 

tMis.s Kelcllas, Maifli 12, 1703, petitioned the Legislature 
tor a grant of the money thus forfeited. 



\ 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



S3 



1793, I)cc. 2.5. — Charles Doughty, Flushing; of- 
fers for sale the farm of Bciijamia Duseubury, de- 

' ceased, at Foster's Meadow, on the road from Ja- 
maica to Hemp.=tead, containing one hundred and 
forty acres. It is a good stand for a shopkeeper, 
as a shop has been kept there many years. It has 
an apple orchard, aud other trees. 

1794, Jan. 11.— $10 Txcicard. — Ean away from 
John Eapclye, Newtown, a negro boy, Joe, aged 
twenty, who speaks plain English. He had on a 
blue, long coat, di-ab overalls^ shoes tied and a felt 
hat. 

1794, Jan. 6.— Jonah Hallet, Esq., offers for 
sale twft farms, occupied by him, in the centre of 
the pleasant and salubrious town of Newtown. 
There are seventy-fiye acres, ten of which is mea- 
dow, producing forty loads ot English hay, one 
two-story double house, aad a stone house and 
kitchen. 

^ 1794, Jan. 6.— Jamos Lloyd, of Boston, offei's 
for sale the house, barn, aud farm of six hundred 
acres, on the east end of Lloyd's Neck, so well 
known for its convenieut situation aud other yalu- 

, able properties. 

1794, Jan. 11. — $10 Beward. — liato away from 

John Itapelye, Newtown, a negro boy, Joe, aged 

twenty, who speaks plain English. . Tie had on a 

blue long coat, drab oyeralls, shoes tied and a felt 

■ hat. . 

' 1794, Jan. IS.— Died, on Monday, at Newtown, 
■* "William Lawrence, Esq., aged sixty-five. His re- 
mains wei'e interred in the family burjnng ground, 
attended by a large collection of relations and 
friends. In him, his wife is bereft of an affection- 
ate husband, his children of a loving and indulgent 
parent, his relations of a worthy and sincere friend, 
and the public of a useful, benevolent and valuable 
man. — Daih/ Adv. 

1794, Jan. 22. — Josiah Blackwell, Newtown, 
offers for sale half of BlackwcU's Island, consisting 
of fifty-nine aci'cs, with house, two orchards and a 
number of [quarries of the best gray stone, which 
are an inexhaustible source of profit. 

1794. — Died, Jan. 25, after a very short illness, 
Eev. Leonard Cutting, aged sixtj'-nine, formerly 
professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia College, 
then rector of St. George's Church, Hempstead, 
and late of Christ Church, Newbern, N. C; For 
learning, probity, unaffected piety and a generous 
spirit of independence, he was respected, esteemed 
and beloved, equally by his pupils, parishioners 
and fJ-iends.~--Z'rti7^ Adv. 

l"{ii,i Jan. 28.— Charles Fan-iugton offers for 
Bale his farm, of forty acres, two miles from New- 
town landing. . 

1794, Feb. 9.— §5 Beivard.—Vvan away from 
Abraham Polhcmus, Newtown, a negro man. Jack, 
who wore a jacket with sleeves, and his hair tied 
couped at the ears. 



1794, Feh. 10. — For sale, the plantation, late of 
Townsend Dickenson, deceased, at Cedar Swamp, 
containing two hundred and thirty acres, forty of 
which is timbered with oak, hickory asd chestnut. - 
The farm is natural for grass aud grain, and lies 
two miles from a landing. Enquire of Isaac Un- 
derhill. Flushing ; Amos Uuderhill, on the premi- 
ses, or David, Underbill, New York. 

1794, Fch 12. — Dr. Daniel Meuema, Jamaica, is 
appointed Sheriff of Queens County. 

1794, Feb. 12. — Ran away from Henry Prior, 
Oysterbay, Jacob Tobias, a white boy, aged four- 
teen. He had on a mixed colored coatee, jacket, 
breeches, and old hat. Is. 6d. reward. 

1794, Feb. 21.— For sale, the farm of William- 
Lawrence, deceased, Newtown, containing two 
hundred and thirty acres or firable, timber and 
meadow land, fenced principally with stone, one _ 
mile from Hallett's Cove. It has a delightful aud 
singuhu'ly extensive prospect. On it are a barn 
witli shelters on each side, a granary with a cider- 
mill under it, a stone smoke-house, barrack, crib, 
&c., four orchards, producing one thousand barrels 
of pippins aud two hundred barrels of cider. 
There is an excellent stone-quarry and an acre of 
tm-f-meadow. 

1794, Feb. 22. — Daniel Lawrence, John B. 
Hicks aud Thomas Corn well, offer for sale the 
farm of John Talman, deceased, two miles from 
Bayside landing, where a great variety of fish are 
caught, and shad in their season. It is one and a 
half miles from two grist-mills. On it are a double 
two-story house with two- kitchens, two barns, a 
granary, wagon-house and crib. 

1794, March 4.— Abiathar Rhodes offers, on 
generous terms, his beautiful and pleasant farm of 
three himdred and seventy acres, with woodland 
and salt and fresh meadow, at Jamaica South. 
On it are a new house with four rooms on the first 
and second floors, a large apple orchard of grafted 
fruit. It is convenient for getting sedge off the 
marsh, and has an extensive prospect, bounded 
only by the extremity of the watery distance, the 
bay and sea lying before the house. 

1794, March 12. — Abraham Polhemus, Sr., 
Dutch Kills, offers for sale his farm, of sixty or 
seventy acres, on wbieh 'are an orchard, weava- 
shop, &c. 

1794, March lo,-T-Abraham Skinner, Jamaica, 
oners for sale his farm, of forty acres, six of mea- 
dow and eight of woodland. It would suit a gen- 
tleman or farmer, and has every conveniencv. 
The, house has seven rooms, a pantry, with kitchen 
cdj.oining, and & well near the kitchen door. 

1794, March 14.— To let, the bouse and farm, 
where William Poarsall now lives, afc-Near Rocka- 
way, within twenty rods of Dorlon's mill, where 
vessels go and come from New York every week 
during summer, and where may be had a great 
plenty of fish and fowl in their season. Th 



29- 



84 



QUEENS COUNTY 



pleasantness of the jilace (as it is so well kuown^ 
needs no liirtlier recommendation. 

1794, A2))il 21. — BeAvcr I'ond Races, on JJou- 
day. Purse, jC20. Entrance, 20s., the Saturday 
before. Any horse that has won ^£20 must carry 
six lbs. extra weight. Next day a race for au ele- 
gant saddle. 

1794, April 2. — -SIO iLCicard. — Ran away from 
Charles Ilewlelt, Eastwoods, a ucgro man, ageJ 
tweuty-ftve, named Spry or Zenas. 

1794, April S. — John 13. llieks oEfurs for sale 
his farm, of l«'o hundred and forty-five acre.s, west 
side of J.,ittlc Neck Haj' commonly called liayside. 
On it is a good dwelling-house, with au adjoining 
one for an overseer, a spring of water before the 
door, and a large orchard of winter and cider ap- 
ples. 

1794, June 18. — EDUCATION.— An Academy 
is ju.*t o])ened at the pleasant and healtliy town of 
South Hempstead, wherein the Greek, Latin, 
French and English languages will be faithfully 
taught, and the morals and manuers of the youth 
diligently inspected and carefully regulated. The 
law.s made i'or the government of the Institution, 
and terms on which board and tuition can be ob- ; 
taincd, ma)- be known by applying to the printer. 

By order of the Trustees, : 

JOHX Leffeets, Sccretarij. 

1794, Oct. S. — The Beaver Pond Races took 
place on Tuesday last. Six horses ran for the 
Purse of .£100. rolijdorc, of New York, took the 
first and second heat and purse. On Wednesday, 
a purse of .£50 was run for by seven horses, and 
take.i l)y Young Messenger, from New Jersey, over 
Gold Toes, of N'cw York, who won the first heat. 
On Thur.-'day, a purse of .£47 lO.s. was run for by 
six horses, aud taken by lied Bird. There were 
between two and three thousand s])ectators aud no 
accident happened.— iV^. Y. Jottrmd. 

Names of persons who contributed to the repairs 
and support of of the Episcopal Chiueli, in Jamai- 
ca, at various times, from 17SG to 1794 : 

178fi;Maekerel, .lames I7!)3 

179:! MeXeil, Cliailes 17!):! 

]7S()lMonel, Janios 179:! 

I7.-J0 Moiiltou, Charles 1793 

]7riG Ogilui), Jacob 1793 

1793,05rJon, IVltr 17S4 

]78() I'ettit, Is.i.ac 1793 

]793i!5kinutr, Abraham 1786 

]78(i>!mitb, Christ(ii)her 17SG 

]7il3Thattbrcl, Jolni 3793 

]7rtriTron]i, ,Ji.bn 178() 
]793 Trou)), Kobert 

17'.I4 Van Nostraiid, Aaron 1784 

1781) Van NostianJ, John, 1793 

nf^t) Waters, William 17815 

17^(1 Waters, John 1. 178f) 

1791, Welling, Thmiias 1786 

178G|Welliu<r, .Samuel 178G 

1795. — Jan Cth was observed as a day of IIu- 

*He died at Jamaica, May 24, 1798, aged fifty-ciglit. — 
Ed. 



Bariliii, KchvarJ 
Battiii, John 
Bedel Jacob. Ckrh 
Belts, Tlioma.s 
Brownjohn, Samuel 
Carpenter, Benjamin 
Charlton, John 
Claikson, Lcvinus* 
Colgan, Thomas 
Crommelin, Kobert 
iJopcyster, James 
Budley, John 
Dunn, Jolni 
Eiljjar, William 
Elclert, Samuel 
I'lcminpr, Samson 
Hinelimaii, John 
Kissam, Daniel 



inillation and Pr.iycr, tliroughout the States of 
New York and New Jersey. 

1795. — Canvass of the vote of Queens County : 

Consrefs. 









u 


y^ 


5r-<- 


\ 




h^ 


Ch 


%^ 




I 






II 


r-3 


1^ 


Ovsterbar, - - 


- r,.-> 


r.9 


1.-. 


C4 


4 


18 


South Menipstend, 


- 2! 


214 


304 


3G 


G 


1 


North Hempstead, 


- ii 


SO 


30 


51 


19 


is 


Klnshing, - - - 


■ 34 


r.2 


1 


54 


o 


4 


Jamaica, - - - 


- 75 


23 


2G 


X, 


17 


7 


Newtown, - - 


- 77 


48 





37 


26 


3 



Total, - - 30G 482 370 277 74 Gl 

1795. — During a severe snow storm the ancient 
family of Stites, Hempstead, became extinct. The 
father, William, aud his sons, .all went into the bay 
and a snow storm suddenly coming up, they were 
unable to reach any human abode. The next 
morning they were found frozen to death, in a 
boat-house near their boat. 

1795, April S. — James Lawrence, Flushing, of- 
fers for sale his farm, of one hundred and thirty- 
five acres. It is three miles from Jamaica. 

1795, April 8. — Jacob Ilicks, Far Rockaw.ay, 
.offers for sale his farm, of four hundred acres, ou 
the road to the sea-shore. It has a view of the 
sea half a mile distant. 

1795, June 28. — Sarah Lawrence, a girl, by ac- 
cident, fell in the mill-pond, called the Alley, and 
was drowned. 

1795. — A number of the inhabitants of North 
Hempstead met to celebrate the Fourth of July, 
on the spot where they raised the Standard of Lib- 
erty, in 1775. The day was spent with great 
harmony and decorum, and the following toasts 
were drank : 

1. The Fourth of July, may it ever be respected, 
and never abused. 

2. The United States of America. 

3. Tlie President of the United States. 

4. The State of New York. 

5. The Governor of this State. 

6. The Congress of the United States. 

7. xVgricultnre, Commerce aud JIamifactures. 

8. The Republic of France. 

9. The Rej.ublic of Holland. 

10. A general peace in Europe, favorable to Re- 
publics 

11. He whose country is the world, aiul whose 
religion is to do good. 

12. ]^Iay the citizens of the United States, in 
their ])rosperity, never forget industry, economy 
and Justice. 

13. The Rights of Man. Three cheers. 

1 1. ;May each return of the day, bring to our 
country an increase of happiness. 



•Elected. , , 

tVates ran twice for Governor; first on tlie Federal, and 
then ou the Itepublicau ticket, but was never clectc^d.— AV/. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



85 



12. Tbc Americau Fair. Three cheers. 

170-5, Sept. 23.— For sale, the farm of John 
Troup, consi.stiug of eighteen acres, withiu lialf a 
mile of the centre of the village of Jamaica. It 
TTOuld suit a gentleman in business or retired. 
The garden is iu cedar-paled fence, and has apri- 
cots, nectarines, &c. 

1795, Oct. .31. — At the New JMarkct Course, on 
Wednesday last, was a match race for 8-'>00 by 
Mr. Seabury's horse, Poli/dore, and Mr. Allen's 
mare, Virf/iitia XcU. The latter won. They ran 
the two four-mile heats. The running was equal, 
if not superior, to any before. Pohjdorc had trav- 
elled two much of late. — N, Y. Journal. 

1795. — Joseph Crispin died in a fit, in a piece 
of woodland, in Nortli Hempstead, some time in 
the first part of November. 

1796, Jan. 2. — For sale, a farm of one hundred 
acres, two miles south of Jamaica, and one mile 
from the landing, where there is good fishing. On 
it are apple, peach, pear, plum and cheny trees. 
Apply to Charles ^Yelling, on the premises, or 
Charles Welling, Jr., New York. 

1796, Jan. IS. — The name of South Hempstead 
■was altered to Hempstead. — Ass. Jour. 

1796, Fch. 2. — For sale, the two-story house 
and lot of David Lamberson, in the double street, 
Jamaica, next door to Sirs. Ilinchman's tavern. 
It has the necessary out-houses, cistern, garden 
and small orchard. It has been occupied fifty 
years as a store. 

1796, Fch. 9.— Thomas Denton offers for sale 
his house and three-quarters of an acre of land, on 
which is a hatter's shop, with tools, ojiposite the 
Academy, Jamaica. 

1796, March 7.— David Doty, Richard Sands 
and Samuel Woolley, petition the Legislature for 
the exclusive right of a ferry on the East River, 
from Queens to Westchester County. — Ass. Jour. 

1796, March 29. — To tJi£ Electors of Queens 
County: — Having been prevented by public du- 
ties, for some years past, from attending to my 
private concerns, I must decline a nomination for 
Representative to Congress. I beg mj fellow- 
citizens to accept my grateful acknowledgements 
for the confidence they have been pleased to re- 
pose in me, by honoring me with their suffrages on 
so many occasions. 

Nathaniel Laweence. 

1796, April .5.— For sale, that beautiful and ele- 
gant seat called Hyde Park, north side of Hemp- 
stead Plains, containing four hundred and seventy 
acres, of which three hundred and fifty is in fence. 
It has two orchards of the choicest fruits, eighty 
acres of woodland, a spacious dwelling-house in a 
grove, having prospects through six delightful ave- 
nues, a barn, hog-sty, out-oifices, two farm-houses, 
and a green-house well furnished with tropical 
plants. It is well calculated for a family of taste 



and fortune, being in a centre of country abounding 
in game of all sorts. Apply to John 11. Thompson, 
New York, or Charles Moultou^ — Bailij Advertiser. 

1796. — The widow Gilzian will sell at auction, 
April Sth, her house, barn, farming utensils, and 
farm of twentj'-two acres of homestead, chiefly 
orcharding of peaches, pears, &c., one mile from 
Newtown, on the stage-road, a r[uarter of a mile 
from a landing and nine from Brooklyn. Also, a 
number of medicines and shop-furniture for an 
apothecary. 

1796, April 12. — An Academy, uuder the solo 
direction of the Rev. T. L. Moore, will be opened 
at South Hempstead, April 17th. Able teachers 
will be provided in the different sciences, and par- 
ticular attention paid to the education, morals and 
manners of the youth committed to his care. 

1796, May 1. — John Battin wishes to inform 
his fellow-citizens that he has taken the house 
formerly occupied by William Wame, Jamaica, 
where he intends to keep a genteel house of enter- 
tainment. He has laid in an assortment of the 
best Liquors, and flatters himself to be enabled 
to give general satisfaction to the public. — Daily 
Adv. 

1T9G, May 7. — Mr. St. Marj', late proprietor, 
oft'ers for sale, a form of three himdred acres, south 
side of Jamaica, commanding a beautiful prospect. 
On it are an orchard of two hundred trees, and a 
garden in perfect order. It is all sown and well 
calculated for an early crop to market. The farm 
abounds with game, fish, fowl, oysters, clams, &c. 
Eight acres are sown with oats, rye, grass, clover, 
timothy and lucerne. Eleven bushels of rye were 
sown last fall. There are two hundred loads of 
manure for corn. Also, twelve milch cows well 
chosen. — Daily Adv. 

1796, May 20. — For sale, the house, lot and 
well manured garden of Mr. St. Mary, in Jamaica 
village. He and his elephant are about leaving 
New York. — iV. Y. Diary. 

1796. — A school will be opened in Newtown, 
the first Monday in May, in which will be taught, 
by an able instructor, reading writing, arithmetic, 
geography, English gi-ammar, Latin, Greek and 
French. Manners and morals will be attended to. 
Board for either sex may be had in respectable 
families. Further particulai-s may be had of Rev. 
Nathan Woodhull. — N. Y. Journal. 

1796, 3Iay 24.— The Latin and Greek lan- 
guages, and sciences, are taught at Union Hall* 
Academ}^ Jamaica, under the care of the Rev. 
George Faitoute, A room is devoted to the in- 
. struction of young ladies in the refinements of the 
needle. — N. Y. Journal. 

1796, June 3. — Vote of Queens County, for 
four Senators of the Southern District : 

^Called Union HiiU from being built by a. union of the 
thi-ee towns of Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown. — Ed. 



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Republican. i Federal. 

Anriin l!iin-. - - 223 Jjynrs Watson," - 455 

Jolm .^iliPiitk, - - 2;i3 A. Otnlorcliink,* - - S07 

Jolm Smith, - - 212 Snm.icl Ilai^rl't.* - 440 

Abtl Smith, - - - 11*] Sclah Strong," - - 459 

17 96, June 6. — Teiemiali \'amlribilt, Jr., Far 
RocUan-.ay, tlianks liis friends for past favoiv, and 
informs them that he is now furnished wiili large 
airy rooms for parties, jiud has erected a ucw con- 
venient stage, to run Monday and Friday, at one 
P. M., from his house to Brooklyn ferry, stop a lit- 
tle time. at Jamaica, and return from Jacob Uicks', 
Brooklyn, .Tuesday and Saturday, at two P. M. 
Each passenger, 8»\ ; one hundred and fifty pounds 
b.nggage equal to a p.tssengcr ; 3(/. a letter. — X. Y. 
Bhry. 

179G, July 19. — Ii.au away from James Smith, 
Jamaica, an apprentice boy, George Ludiuni, aged 
nineteen, a shoemaker, lie had on a striped nan- 
keen coat, coarse jean waistcoat, plain nankeen 
brecehea with ferret strings at the knees. lie is 
very impudent and forward in company. "Who 
ever puts him iu jail, &c., shall receive 810 re- 
ward. 

179G, Julij 19. — Last week the vegetable world 
ha.s been refreshed by plcnteou.s libations from the 
celestial water-pots, and all n.ature seems revived. 
The season has been favorable to the early harvest, 
and exuberant crops ai-e taking in. 

1796, Aug. 1. — Died, at Newtown, aged twenty- 
six, Mr. Philip SUimicr, formerly of IS'ew Jersi'y, 
after five hours illness, llis jiarents are deprived 
of a dutiful child, and an eiLtensivo circle of ac- 
quaintances of :i very agreeable companion. — N. 
Y. Journal. 

179G, Auf/. 6.— Sarah, widow of William Wood, 
offers for sale, a pleasant situation near Jamaica, 
containing forty five acres, a two-story house, barn, 
hovel and otlier out-buildings, an orchard and gar- 
den in full bearing— all in good fence. — Daily Adv. 

170C, Aug, 16.— For sale, the farm of William 
Wood, deceased, containing three bmidred and 
seventy acres, three miles from Jamaica, and half 
a mile from the road leading thereto, and nine 
from Brooklyn. It is manured with ashes and laid 
down with diH'erent kinds of grass seed. Ninety 
loads of hay mr y be cut yearly. The house has a 
piazza in front, a portal and entry, with two par- 
lors and three bed-rooms. The rooms are papered. 
and fit for the reception of n. genteel family. 
There is a cider-mill, smoke-house, fowl-house, 
milk-house paved with brick, with a well in the 
middle, to which water is communioated by spouts 
from a pump. There is an orchard of three hun- 
dred trees, two gardens, six asparagus-beds, hot- 
beds, pears, poaches, nectarines, j)Imii3, strawber- 
ries and cherries. On the other side of the road is 
an eminence commanding u. view of Jamaica bay, 
the hills and adjaceut countiy, and containing sixty 
acres, with two houses, one for an overseer. It js 

•Elected. 



two miles from two good landing". The bay af- 
fords clam-i, fish and oysters. In winter there is 
good fowling, and a trout stream U miles distant. 
Enfiuire of Sarah Wood, on the premises. — Uailij 
Aih: 

1793, Aug. 18.— Thomas Woolley offers for 
sale his farm of one hiindi-cd acres of good kind 
land, fronting the East Iliver, and sixteen acres of 
ap])roved turf bottom, cqnal to any in Europe, 
having been cut down fifteen feet and growing 
better. Shell and scale-fish may be t.iken every 
day. AVoodeock, quail and other small gaiijc iu 
plenty. I'assage and m irket boats p.iss daily, 
with the ple.ising prospect of all the shipping "to 
and from New York. Also, stock and favniing 
utensils. Dated at (ireat Neck. 

1796, Aug. aS.-William CrosswcU, A. M., late 
master of the Academy at Jamaica, has opened a 
school in Liberty Street, New York. 

1796, Sept. 2. —Thomas Ardcn, at the head of 
Newtown Creek, otters for sale bis farxu- of one 
hundred and aevcntj- acres, moat of which is ready 
for the scythe or plow. 

1796. Sc2)t. 5.— Died, at Flushing, Sund.ay, 
se'nuight, Ger.ird G. Beekman, Esq., aged seventy- 
seven, a citizen , of New York, whose hospitality 
and good old wine endeared hira to many friends. 
He had retired from business to pass the remainder 
of his life in quiet, and enjoy those rational amuse- 
ments i^hieli, the (lolightful phiius of Long Island 
afibrded him. — 2[. Y. Jour. 

1<T;6, Oct. C.-T.rStephen Stilwcll o(r<M-s for sale 
his farm, (where a store is now kept) containing 
tv/cnty acres, and half an acre of turf for fuel, in a 
pleasant and healthy situation, between two roads, 
one from Newtown to Hell-Gate ferry and the oth- 
er to I'lr^biug Bay. It ia convenient for a gentle- 
man retired from business, or doing business in the 
city. On it are orchards of apples, pears, peaches 
and plums. A row of black cherry-trees extends 
from one end of the farm to the . other. Also, 
gooseberries, raspberries, currants, almonds and 
butternuta. The liouse is two-stories high, forty 
feet front, with piazza and a beautiful green before 
the door. 

1796, Oct. 31. — On the evening of a .Sheep-p.art- 
ing, iu Jolm Brush's work-room, North Kemp- 
stead, Rock's Ben cluilleiiged Elias Nation, a inus- 
tec, 10 fight with him. Elias at first declined, but 
Ben struck him atiu they had two scuffles. lOze- 
kiel Baldwin held the candle near half an liour, 
and .Josejih Seaman .stood by with a slick. While 
Ben had Eli;us down, a white man (unknown) and 
Micah Jackson (colored) kicked Elias in the small 
of the back and sidcji, so that he died thereof No- 
vember 8th.— Coroner's Inquest. 

1796, Nov. 'i.-^Abiatliar Rlionds, Jamaica, of- 
fers for sale, the farm on which he lives, forty rods 
from the Episcopal riiureb, on the roa^ to ITtLsh- 
ing. It contains twenty-two acres, in cedar and 
chestnut fence, and a well of extraordinary water. 



V 



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S7 



179G, Nov. 19. — Benjauiin Coe offers for sale, 
liis form of seventy-two acres, in a bigli state of 
cultivation, at Xewtowu, witliia half a mile of three 
churches, and near the Academy. On it arc two 
dwelling-houses, bam, orchards, &c. — Dail>/ Ado. 

1797, Fch. 11. — James Smith offers for sale 
the pleasant farm, formerly of Colonel Gabriel Gr. 
Ludlow, containing one hundred and twelve acres 
of arable land, impro^-ed with ashes, and thirty of 
■woodland, enclosed iu cbestmit and cedar fence. 
On it are a large hou=c and dairy, stone v.'elJ, lai'ge 
cemented cistern, two capacious barns, two apple- 
orchards, with peaclies, pears, plums and cherries 
of almost everj' description. It yields twenty to 
thirty tons of English hay. It is four miles from 
a landing, and six from Jamaica. There is a 
handsome prospect from the plains, which render 
very good shooting iu the season of plovering. — 
Ball]) Adv. 

1797, Feb. 23. — For sale, the late residence of 
widow Ann Field, deceased. Flushing. It is two 
miles from the lauding and half a mile from a 
grist-mill, and contains one hundred acres. It has 
a spring twenty rods from the house. Apply to 
John Eowne, or Walter Farrington, near by. — 
Daily Adv. 

1797, March 8.— The Eev. George Faitoute, 
Jamaica, has removed his school from the Acade- 
my to his own house, where he continues to teach 
the Latin and Greek languages, sciences, &c. 
TlTc school has been and still is in a flourishing 
condition. Board may be had in genteel families. 

1797, March 17.— N. Moore and J. Suydam, 
Trustees, want a person, with good recommenda- 
tion, capable to instruct children in reading, writing 
and arithmetic, iu a school at Nev.'towu. — Daili/ 
Adv. 

1797, March 2-5.— James Waters and others, of 
Jamaica, owners of an engine, petition for an Act 
for the better extinguishing of fires. — Ass. Jour. 

1797, April 1. — The proprietors of a fire engine 
iu Jamaica, are authorized by the Legislature to 
form au organization, of 'rom three to five Trus- 
tees, who are to choose !birtei.j firemen (volun- 
teers) who are to be exeiupt from military duty. — 
Ass. Jour. 

1797, A2)ril 4. — Voted, in Town Meeting, that 
■ a cage be erected in the town of Jamaica, the ex- 
pense to be paid by the Overseers of the poor. 

1797, June 14. — §20 Beward. — Ran away from 
Abraham Schenck, Great Neck, a negro man, 
Jake, much addicted to liquor, very impertinent 
when intoxicated, wore a high-crowned hat, hair 
shortish and tied behind. He is something of a 
fiddler, very active, and values himself much on 
lumping over fences. 

1797, Jtine 21.— On Friday last, a gentleman 
traveling on horseback, from Brooklyn ferry to 
Jamaica, very narrowly escaped being killed by a 
flash of lightuing, which carried away the skirts of 



his coat. He never discovered it till he got to Ja- 
maica. He had iu his pocket two horse-shoes, 
which he supposed must have attracted the light- 
uing. — N. Y. Mer. Adv. 

1797, June 30.— For sale, M. Gauffreau's farm, 
of one hundred and fifteen acres, near Van Brunt's 
mill, and close to Jamaica Bay. — Baihj Adv. 

1797. — Died, at Hempstead, July oth, Nathan- 
iel Lawrence, Esq., aged thirty-six, for three years 
Attorney-General of this State, much and deserv- 
edly lamented. He was buried in the Episcopal 
chm-ch-yard there, attended by a numerous train of 
sorrowing relatives and friends. He had a mind 
of great fertility and energy ; and was too honest 
to be a complete politician and too independent to 
become the dupe of any party. He was exempla- 
ry as a son, husband, father, brother, friend and 
master, and died a professing disciple of the Lord 
Jesus. He was never deistical in his ideas and 
had too much understanding to beenthusiastical. — 
N. Y. Journal. 

Independence. — At a recent meeting of a 
number of Republicans at Independent Town, on 
Cow Neck, (formerly called Stoning Town) on the 
4th of July, to celebrate the Anniversary of Ame- 
rican Independence, at the place where the stand- 
ard of liberty was erected in the year 1776, after 
firing sixteen guns to celebrate each of the United 
States, they spent the afternoon in good humor, 
mirth, and decorum, and drank the following 
toasts : 

1. The 4th of July — maj^ it be held in venera- 
tion by all true sons of liberty. Four cheers. 

2. George Washington — may his services never 
be forgotten. Six cheers. 

3. George Clinton, late Governor of the S<ate of 
New York — may his patriotism ever be in remem- 
brance. Three cheers. 

4. John Jay, our present Governor — may his 
services be equal to the confidence reposed in him. 
Three cheers. 

5. John Adams, President of the United States — 
may ho keep checks and balances even. Three 
cheers. 

C The Congress of the United States — may 
they act iu unison for the public good. Three 
cheers. 

7. The Legislature of New York — may her fu- 
ture wisdom exceed all her former. Eight cheers. 

S. May the Sun of Liberty shine throughout the 
universe. Four cheers. 

9. The united Republics of France and Bata- 
via — may justice and liberty crown their exertions. 
Six cheers. 

10. The Militia of the United States— may it 
always command respect. Three cheers. 

11. May our navy and fortifications protect us 
from all insult. Three cheers. 

IS. May there be a stop put to the spoliation of 
our Commerce. Three cheers. 

13. May our agricultm-e and commerce flourish 
nniivalled. Three ehoers. 



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14. May tlic companies- of our lock navi'jation 
Buccced iu tlicir patriotic undertaking. Three 
clieer». 

i.'j. May Arts and Sciences flourish through the 
United States. Three cheers. 

IG. May all wars and di.scord cease. Three 
cheers. 

Vol loi Iter. 

May the Fair of America cherish none but the 
forms of Liberty. Six cheers. 

1797, St'j)f. 1. — Ean away from llichard Beadle, 
Hempstead, an apprentice, 'William "Webb, lie 
has tliick lips, bold countenance, and wore a largo 
crowned hat. Whoever returns him shall be well 
rewarded. — Daili/ Adc. 

]707. — Abraham Schenck and (l'orn{.iius Van 
Bi-unt, Executors, will .^ell at vendue, Sept. 27tli, 
the ■well cultivated farm of Jacob Adri.ince, de- 
ceased, near Success, containing one hundred and 
fourteen acres, with two nevcr-iailing ponds in dif- 
ferent parts, a house with two iirc-jilaccs and 
kitchen, a spacious Dutch barn with sliingle-rouf 
and board-floor, a large hovel, granary, wagon- 
house with a corn-crib under it, an orchard of one 
liundred and fifty grafted trees and other choice 
fruit. — Bci'tly Adv. 

1797, Sept. 17.— Richard Smith. New York, 
offers for sale, a lot in the centre of Flushing, on 
■which are a two-story house of six rooms, a garden 
and blacksmith's shop. It is the first situation in 
the place for a store or tavci'n, or for a ])rivate 
family, a.s passage-boats ply every other day to 
the city, and the bay abounds in sea and shell 
fish. — Dailii Adv. 

1797, Sept. 30. — Died, on Saturday evenin;;, at 
Brooklyn, Andrew C)nderd<)nk, Esq., one of the 
Senators of the Southern District and Member of 
the Council of Appointment, a man in whom were 
centered the endearing rjuidities of a good citizrn, 
the tender and aflectionatc husband, the dutiful 
son, the lionest man and the Christian. 

1797. Kov. 9.— "While Mr. and Mrs. Goslinc 
•were riding from Newtown to Brooklyn feny, the 
horse took fright nearly opjiosile to the Jletliodist 
church, and, after running a short distance, upset 
the chair, by which means Jlrs. Gosline received 
considerable injury, having been mucli bruised in 
several places, "but fmni the timely aid and benevo- 
lent exertions of D. Coleman and other inhabitants 
who came to her assistance, hopes are entertained 
that the consequences ■will not prove fatal, not- 
withstanding her situatiou is peculiarly delicate 
and precarious,— i\'. 1'. Journal. 

179S, March (j.^-XiQO is ordered to be raised in 
Queens County, for the repair of the Court House. 
— Ass. Jour. 

1798, March 24. — Nathaniel Coles is ai)])ointed 
Brigadier-General of the Jlilitia of Kings and 
Queens Counties, in place of Matthew Clarkson, 
promoted to be Major-Geueral. — N. Y. Journal. 



1798, March 31.— Newtown Stage.— X nc.at 
light, airy coachee, hung upon steel springs, will 
start from ^Ir. Abraham Bapelye's Newtown, for 
Brooklyn, on Jlonday, Wednesday and Saturdaj', 
at six, and leave Mr. Van Nostrand's, Brooklyn, 
at five r. M., during the summer. Fare, 3s. ; and 
for waj--j)asseugers, 5rf. per mile. To prevent 
being discommoded only seven passengers will be 
taken at a time. 

Edward IIowaed & Co. 

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South ITompstcad, 214 41 1G3 140 41 21 ]:V> 

Korthlleinpstead, - Ot) 47 36 33 4i 41 80 

Ovstvrbiiy, - - - 107 26 03 G3 12 18 40 

Newtown, . - - . 30 77 26 27 77 75 PS 

.lam.iio.i, - - - - 26 100 19 10 98 98 111 

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1798, June 10. — Jainaica Stage.— John Van 
Nostrand and Caleb Mills, drive separate stages, 
alternate days, except Saturday and ^londay, 
when both stages go, leaving Jamaica at seven 
o'clock, and Mrs. llorton's, Brooklyn, at half-past 
four. Any article not cumbersome or disagrceaiile 
to passengers freely admitted. 

1798, June 28. — John l^cvort offers to run his 
horse, Jloi/alist, against Eclipse and Baronet, for 
•S'lOO, on the New JIarket Coiu-sc. The best two 
in three four-mile heats. — JV. Y. Jour. 

179S — Aug. 9th, the thermometer stood .at 96= in 
the ahadc, and loT iu the sun.— A'. Y. Jour. 

1798, Aug. la. — We learn that in the tempest, 
on Saturday, a sloop, on the T.ong Island shore, 
was struck, and the flash killed one young man 
and severely wounded an other. At Hempstead, a 
barn was struck and instantiv burnt to the ground. 
—.V. r. Jour. 

1798, Aug. 1-3. — CIO Iicward.— Jinn away from 
Jacob Foster, Jamaica, a negro, Newpmt, who 
]ilays on a violin, and sometimes is addicted to 
liquor. 

1798, Sept. 17.— I-^zekiel Fcarce offers for sale, 
his farm of seventy-one acres, two miU» from 
Flushing landing, on the main road from the (ireat 
I'lains to Wliitestone ferry. ( )u it arc two small 
houses, two barns, two "wells, and apple, pear, 
peach, cherry and plum trees. It is suitable for 
dividing into three or four parts for building. — 
— JJdih/ Adv. 

1798, Sejif. 21. — Nathaniel llenne offers for sale, 
the estate of James llcuue, lately occupied by 



•Elected. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



S9 



Samuel Rcuiie, deceased, at Newtown, one mile 
from the public lauding, and eight from Brooklyn, 
ou the stage-road. It contains eighty acres in a 
high state of improvement, with a house, two-story 
shop, barn, coach-house, and twelve acres of or- 
chard. 

1798, Sept. 21. — Ann Brownjohn offers for sale 
her beautiful country seat, ou the main road, at the 
entrance of the much admired town of Jamaica. 
The mansion has four rooms on the first and sec- 
ond floors, a new court-yard in front ornamented 
with poplar and other trees. There arc tifly-six 
and a half acres fit for the scythe or plough. 
There is an opportunity of purchasing provisions 
from the market-wagons which pass daily. It 
would suit anj' one who wishes to partake of the 
enjoyments of rural life. — Dudy Adv. 

1798, Oct. IG. — 64 Reward and charges. — Ran 
away, without hat or shoes, from Edward Duffel, 
Jamaica South, a dark mulatto boy, George, aged 
twelve. lie was brought from South Carolina last 
year. — Dadj Adc. 

1798, Nov. 6.— For sale, the form of John 
Lawrence, Newtown, above Hellgate, containing 
sixty acres. It has a beautiful prospect. Excel- 
lent fish are taken in front of the laud ou the East 
River. — Dady Adv. 

1798, Dec. 10.— For sale, ten thousand Lom- 
bard j' poplar trees,* from ten to seventeen feet in 
height, by William Prince, Flushing. 

1798, Dec. 26. — At a general and large meeting 
of the freeholders and inhabitants of Newtown, at 
the Court House, Mr. Johannis DeWitt was called 
to the chair ; when it was uvauimously resolved 
that the Alien and Sedition laws ought to be re- 
pealed ; and that a committee be appointed to 
collect the sense of the towns iu the county and to 
address Congress respecting the repeal of said 
laws ; and that said committee consist of Isaac 
Ledyard, Benjamin Coe, David Moore, John Law- 
rence. Jacob Field, Cornelius Luystor, Samuel 
Riker, Thomas Lawrence, Jr., and Robert Furman ; 
and that they be authorized to correspond with the 
other towns. 

[Tlie above resolutions were sent to t]io Supor\isor or 
Town Clerk of Flusliing;, requesting him to call a meeting to 
endorse the same, and also to attend a County meeting, at 
tlie Court House. January 15th, 1799; but the people of 
Flushing- came out strongly against them, as appears by 
the following proceedings : — £</.] 

At a numerous and respectable meeting of the 
inhabitants of Flushing, convened in pursuance of 
public notice, at the house of John Bradwell, inn- 
keeper, Lewis Cornwall was appointed Chairman, 
and David Gardner, Clerk. The preceding reso- 
lutions irom Newtown were read. 



*Tlie poplar was, for a time, vei-y extensively planted. 
Long rows of it were to be seen almost everywlicre on tlie 
Island. Its leaves wore claimed to be as good as hay for 
fodder. In ]>()6 it was .said to nourish a poisonous worm. 
See New York, Evening Post, July 1, 15. — Ed. 



Whereas, the inhabitants of Flushing Iiave been 
called together to obtain from Congress a repeal of 
the Alien and Sedition acts, and as we arc citizens 
of the United States, and peaceable and well dis- 
posed men and men of veracity, and therefore wc 
have nothing to fear from those laws ; therefore, 

liesolvcd, That we place the utmost confidence 
in the wisdom, patriotism and integrity of the 
President of the United States and both houses of 
Congress, and cannot believe they would pass an 
act contrary to the Constitution or interest of 
these States ; 

That in our opinion the seditious practices of 
many citizens of our country and the unprincipled 
conduct of many foreigners, made those laws highly 
necessary and jjroper ; 

That wc will use our utmost endeavors to assist 
the Government in the execution of these laws 
and all others which the constituted authorities 
may deem necessary to promote its welfere ; 

That Richard Morrell and David Gardner be 
appointed with the Chairman to answer the circu- 
lar letter from Newtown, and publish these pro- 
ceedings in two daily papers of New York. 

1799, Jan. 29.— Cadwallader D. Golden, As- 
Assistant xittorney-Gencral, writes to Governor 
Jay that the Court of Queens County is at all 
times the least orderly of any he ever was in, that 
the entry of the Court House is lined, on Court 
days, with the stalls of dj-am-sellers, and filled 
with drunken people so as to be almost impassa^ 
ble. — N. Y. American CdLscii. 

1799, Jan. 12.— Edward Bardin offers for sale 
Beaver Hall,* a beautiful country seat, containing 
fifty acres, a quarter of a mile west of Jamaica. 
It has a cistern holding twenty-four hogsheads of 
water, asparagus-beds, a handsome gravel walk 
leading up to the house. Also, an eight-acre lot 
adjoining, on the corner of two roads, at present 
occupied by Alexander Jones. It has an orchard 
of ajiples, plums, cherries, peaches and walnuts. 
Also four able Esopus horses, nine cows, two able 
farm negroes, tv,'o wagons and harness, two large 
and one single corn-harrow, j!tc. . 

1799, Feb. 6.— John Battint offers for sale his 
house, pleasantly situated in tlic village of Jamai- 
ca, (a healthy ride of twelve miles from the ferry) 
well calculated for a gentleman's retreat, or a pub- 
lic house, as which it has been occujiied a number 
of years. It has four rooms ou tlie first floor and 
four above. 

1799, March C, — Jacob Foster, Crow Hill, 
Jamaica, offers for sale his farm of sixty-five acres. 
On it is a fine view of Rockaway. It cuts timo- 
thy and clover. There is also a bed of turf. 

1799, March IS.— On Thursday last the dwell- 

*Now Judge Cogswell's. — Ed. 

tJohn Battin died in New York, ]?52, aged over one 
liundrcd years. He was a British soldier in the Revolu- 
tion, but remained here and became a publican — Ed. 



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ing-liousc of the lute Kev. William Kclullas, at 
Jiimaica, took lire by accido'ut and was entirely 
cousumed. The liouse \va.s old and out of rep^iir 
r.nd of no great value Lut tlie loss is pviiicii)ally 
f(jlt in discommoding a large family at a season of 
tlie year not easy to procure a habitation. 

1799, Iday 5. — Job Jlerrit, a fibhcnnau, at 
Lloyd's Neck, while walking to his usual fishing- 
place on a ridge of elippcry rocks that lay on the 
horc and bare at low water, fell on said rocks and 
\/ou;ided his right temple, whereof he died. 

1799, Mat) 16.— E. DufTel offers for eale liis 
: irm of one hundred and thirteen acres oppo.sito 
',',iu Brunt's mill, two miles south of Jamaica, 
, ilculatcd for a gentleman's scat, or farm for cul- 
; 'vation. It is in a pleasant airy and healthy situ- 
c.tion close to Jamaica Bay whence fish, oysters 
and clams are easily procured. 

1799, Jilaii IG. — A traveller, in passing through 
1, rag Island, observed a number of liberty poles. 
I 'n a.aking the reason bo was told the farmers 
(.iccted them to show their disapprobation of cer- 
tain laws of Congress, the land tax, &ic.-^iuly 
Adc. 

1799, Aiiri. 9. — 825 Reward. — Ran away from 
William Smith, Great Neck, a yellow uegvo man, 
Peter, aged twenty-eight, slender and neat built. 
He has bushy hair but wears it tied. 

1799, Ai(^. 13. — John, son of William Pearsall, 
of Hempstead, mariner, sailed from New York, 
July 7tli, 179S, and was captured by a French 
I'rivateer. July, 2Sth ; and four days thereafter 
was put on board an American vessel ; but, Au- 
gust ITtli, ho, with eight others was impressed by 
the Captain of the British ship Hmiiulnd, who 
would -not condescend to look at his protection. 
He escaped, November 12tli, while in the harbor 
of Kingston, \f. I., by swimming ashore hi the 
uight, and took passage for the United States. — 
i\'. 1'. Jourticd. 

1799, Oct. 24. — Richard Seaman, who was in 
company with Richard Sojier, ia Hempstead Bay, 
fell overboard of a skiff and was drowned. 

ISOO. — Jamaica, February 22d. — This day was 
commemorated in honor of the virtues and talents 
of Geoi-gc ^Vashington, agreeable to the recom 
incudation of Congress, by the united congrega- 
tions of the Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed and 
Episcopal churches of Jamaica and Flushing, 
'i'lie morning was ushered in by the solemn sound 
of muffled bells. A procession was formed in 
front ^of the Episcopal Chiu-ch, iu the following 
order : 

The Infantry .and comp.any of Artillery with 
arms revcised, their order inverted, colors in mourn- 
ing, and drums muffled. 

JIasonic brethren. 

Students of the Academy. 

Trustees. 

Citizens. 



Strangers. I 

Olliccrs of the Militia in uniform. ] 

Ofiiccrs of the different churches. 

Committee of arrangements. I 

Clergy. ' | 

Orator. 

From the Episcopal Church the prncession 
moved to the Presbyterian Church where the ranks 
opened, right and left, the military leaning on 
their arms reversed, the orator followed by the 
clergy and the rest of the proccsion advanced 
through their ranks and, entering the church, were 
received with solemn music at the entrance by a 
band of singers, who, in perfection and tkill, 
seemed to vie with each other in honoring the day. 
The pulpit, desk aud gallery were all shrouded in 
black. The solemnuities were introduced with 
pr.aycr by the Rev. Mr. Rattoone, and an ode, 
composed by the Rev. ilr. I'aitoute, was sung. 
Then an oration was delivered by !Mr. Eigenbrodt, 
in which, with classical elegance .and all the integ- 
rity of a faithful historian, he depicted the charac- 
ter of our illustrious chief. After the oration 
another ode was sung, composed by Mr. Faitoutc, 
\^'ho then dismissed the assembly with a suitable 
prayer and blessing. 

Thus ended this d.ay in which all parties, sects 
and distinctions most cordially united. Never did 
we see a greater concourse of our fellow-citizens, 
and one general sentiment seemeil to pervade the 
whole — to pay the highest honor to the illustrious 
Washington. 

1800, Feb. 28. — The curious are invited to a 
sight of one of the most astonishing productions iu 
nature, a largo ox raised by 3[r. George Hewlett, 
of Hempstead. (His dam is but a small cow.) 
He is to be seen .at "iMrs. Ueluuf's, Fl^-markct, ad- 
mittance one shilling. To give an idea of this ox 
it need only be mentioned that he is nineteen hands 
higi), seventeen aud a half feet in length and nine 
feet in girth, forming a tremendous mass of anima- 
tion. Not to view him as he now stands arguca 
the want of that cui-iosity which tends to enlarge 
the mind. 

1800, Ajn-U 17. — At a very respectable meeting 
of the electors of Queens County, at Benjamin 
Chceseman's, North Hempstead, Jordan Seaman, 
Esq., Chairman, j nd William Burling, Secretary, 
it was resolved un.animously that this meeting will 
support General John .Smith as Rcprescutalivc to 
Congress ; and Benjamin Huntting, of Suffolk ; 
William Henning, of New York, and Ebonezer 
Purdy, of Westchester, as Senators of the South- 
ern District ; and John I. Skidmorc, Jonah H:il- 
lett, Joseph Pettit and Abraham Moufort, as rep- 
resentatives in Assembly. 

1800, A2>yd 10. — Wanted to take charge of an 
Academy at Newtown, a person well recommend- 
ed. Apply to Dr. Lawrence or Jacob Moore. 

1800, June 0. — Jeremiah Vanderbilt, Jr., has 
taken Henry Jlott into partnership iu the Far 



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91 



Rflck.away Stage, which will start Mouday and 
Friday, at one P. M. for Brooklyn ferry, stop a lit- 
tle time at Jamaica, and return from Jacob Hick's, 
Brooklyn, Tuesday and Saturday, at two P- M. 
Fare one dollar. 

His house is now open lor the reception of 
boarders. A carriage will be ready every morning 
and evening to convey boarders gratis to the sea- 
shore, where a place with two apartments is pro- 
vided for bathers. The advantages of this sea- 
batll in point oP lnnxltb and cnires yearly experi- 
enced are well' known. 

1801, Jan. 2. — Garret Nostrand, overseer of the 
farm called Hyde Park, returned home from- a 
sleigli-ride in the evening; and entering-: the room of 
widow Elizabeth Betts, the housekeeper of Charles 
Moulton, an altercation arose during wliicii he re- 
ceived a sword-citt on the left side of his head, of 
which be died next day. Mrs. Betts with the ser- 
vant, Catharine H-iiggerty, was kept in jail twenty- 
three weck.s, -during which time she was taken be- 
fore a judge, in New York, on a writ of habeas cor- 
pus. At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, June 

, 16th, the Grand Jury endorsed on the bill of iu- 
^dictment Ignoramus, and the prisoners were dis- 

i charged by proclamation. — Court Minutes. 

1801, Fch. 8. — Late at niglit au earthquake was 
perceived at Stoningtown, on Cow Neck. 

j 1801, March 2.— The body of "William. Miller, 

I who was drowned in" a mill-pond, at JIusqueto 

1 Cove, was found floating, by Henry Bennett, who 

with the assistance of Daniel Wright got it asho're. 

i 1801, March i: — Boarding-scnool'at Hempstead. 

The Rev. St^th Hart, rector of St. George's church,* 

is disjjoscd to take six or eight boys to board and 

I lodge in his family and be instructed iu* reading, 

writinK,' arithmetic, geograp!»y, English grammar 

and 'the Latin and Greek languages. Due atten- 

I tion will be paid to ■ the morals of youth intrusted 

to l:»i? cnre.-- The situation is healthy, pleasant 

I and convenient, being twentj'-two miles from New 

1 York, and -c 'regular stage runs every Monday and 

j Fi-iday, and returns Tuesday and Saturday-. 

j 1801, March 10. — Nine hundred and thirty-four 
freeholders of Queens County petition the Legisla- 
ture fdr a turnpike from Jamaica to Brooklyn.} — 
Ass. Jour. 

1801, June ]6.— At a Court of Oyer and Termi- 
ner and Gaol Delivery, holden bj" Morgan Lewis, 
Esq., at the Court House, Walter Duulevy, an 
Irish schooIiBastor; (who, on the evening of De- 
cember 2d lastrat John Burtis' tavern, in Foster's 

*]792 Jan.20.— ThB-j)ot'tioii.of Tiniiitliy IJedell and oth- 
ers, of Hcnip6te«J, to tlio IJfjriflahire li*r nu Act to enable 
thum to raise by Lottery £.'')On''Kir the benefit of their 
cliurch. and ti> sujiport the Miuistcr of the Gospel was 
rejected. — Ass. Jour. 

tAt this time the main street of J.'iniaica wa.Tf.o-ii-ttle 
travelled that grass <^rew on the narrow ridge iu the middle 
of the road, between the tracks made by a team of horses. 
—Ed. 



Meadow, had a scuffle with Benjamin Fish, a 
farmer, of Trimming Square, Hempstead, in which 
the latter lost his life next day, by blows on the 
head, neck and mouth from a billet of wood) was 
convicted on an indictment for manslaughter. 
Upon the hearing of witnesses and viewing the cir- 
cumstances of the case, the sentence awarded by 
the Court wrs fourteen years solitary confinement 
at hard labor in the State's Prison. 

[Willet Lawrence, Under-Sheriff", says "that on 
Sunday, Jan. ISth, two armed men, between two 
and three in tile morning, came to the Court 
House, entered undiscovered, and came to his bed, 
ordered liim to keep silence at his peril, and de- 
manded the key of the room that Dunlevy was 
confined iu and ordered him to get up immediately 
and unlock the door, which he did. They then 
took the prisonet out and locked him! in and threw 
away the kej's." Dunlevy was conveyed to New 
York, and engaged passage to Europe ; but just 
on the eve of the vessel's sailing, the Captain acci- 
dentally heard the report of the rescue, and judged 
from the description that the passenger on ship- 
board was the fugitive. Dunlevy was at once 
identified and committed to Bridewell. He was 
there kept from Janu.ary 24th till June ICth, the 
morning of his trial, when he was escorted to the 
Court House, in Queens County .]-r--E(?. 

ISei; — The fourth of July was celebrated by 
flie Republican citizens of the township of Oyster- 
bay, before whom an oration was delivered by 
Adrian Hegcman. 

1802.— The new Academy, at Oysterbay, will 
be opened April 1st, under ^the care of the Rev. 
Blarmaduke Earl, A. M., where the diff'erent 
branches of literature will be taught in the best 
manner, viz, : Spelling, reading, writing, arithme- 
tic, book-keeping, English grammar, composition, 
oratory, logic, chronology, geography, trigonometry 
in its a^jplication to surveying and navigation, the 
Latin and Greek languages. 

The situation of Oysterbay as respects salubrity 
of air, excellence of water, abundance and variety 
of fruits, scale and shell-fish, easy and regular 
communication with' New Y'ork by water, and vi- 
cinity to a place of public worship, is not exceeded, 
perhaps not equalled in the State. 

E^^ Boarding in good families on reasonable 
terms. 

*^* For particulars call on Mr. John Townsend, 
or Soloman Townsend, New Y'ork, or James Far- 
le}' or William Townsend, Oysterbay. 

By order of the Trustees,* 

John Fleet, Clerk. 

1802, April 14. — William B. Warren was found 

'The other Trustees were "\VlIliam Rutler, Joshua Ham- 
mond, Nathaniel Coles, Jr., Thomas Cock, Jr., Thomas 
Youngs, Charles Cock, Stephen Underbill, Justus Storrs, 
Samuel Yoinigs.AVilliam Ludlani, Townsend Cock, Daniel 
Underbill, Jr., Wi'liam Jones, Jr., Silas Latting, Uavid R. 
F. Jone,«, Isaac Yan Nostrand, John Ludlam, Zebulon 
Frost, William McCoun, and. Coles ^Vortman. 



28., 



92 



QUEENS COUNTY 



lyiug on Lis face fkad, Jiaving been run over by a 
wagon loaded with stone -vvliicli he was carting 
from a lot for Edmund Uuderhill, Flushiusr. 

_ 1802, Ajml 23.— A country scat for sale in 
Flushing, on the road from Jamaica, containing one 
hundred and ten acres. On it i.s a new house forty- 
four by thirty. feet, with a kitdicn an<:i bed room 
for PcrN'ants in the basement, and six bed-rooms on 
the second story. It is on a lofty eminence with 
a view of Newtown, Kiusliing and its bay, the 
Sound, "Westciiestcr and the jersey shore.' Tlic 
ground slopes from the house which overlooks the 
farm, and is approached by avenues of butternut 
and poplar trees. It has pear and cherry trees, and 
one thousand two hundred jx-.icli trees transplanted 
from Prince's nursery. Enquire of Kev. Dr. 
Beach, New York, or Eev. ^Jlr. Kattoonc on the 
premises. 

1802, Mai/ 2G. — Jacob Savanah was drowned 
on a back iu Hog Island inlet, south side of 
Hempstodd. 

1802, Jiuic 29. — A handsome coacliec, wiili 
steel springs and four horses, will kvave Jacob 
Hicks', Brooklyn, at two P. 51., Tuesdays and 
Saturdays, stop to refresh at Hewlett Creed's, Ja- 
maica, and arrive early in the evening at AVhile- 
head C'oruwell's, Far Ilockaway. It will return 
on Slondays at six A. M., aud Friday's at one P. 
M. Farelo*. 

X. B. — AY. C. has fitted up his house for ptivate 
parties and single gentlemen. 

1802, July 5. — Jeremiah A'anderbilt and Uenry 
jrott run a neat coachee with steel .springs, aud 
four horses, from Far Kockaway, on Jfonday, at 
six A. 31., and Fridays at one P. M., for Brookh'u 
ferry, stoj) to refresh at Creed & Mills' tavern Ja- 
maica ; aud return from Selah Smith's, Tuesdays 
and Saturdays, at two P. M. After August Ist 
the st.ages will run three times a week. 

J. V.'s Louse is now open for the reception of 
boarders. 

1S02, Au{/. 10. — Wilniot Smith was accidentally 
drowned in Jamaica Bay. 

1S02, Aug. 28.— There was a severe thunder 
gust in the west part of Queens County. The 
barus of widow Johnson, at Jamaica, and of Heze- 
kiah Field, Newtown, were struck aud consumed. 
The barn, wagon-house and two wagons of widow 
Van I)uyn, of New Utrecht, were also destroyed. 

1802, Oct. — Bernardus Bloom drives the Flush- 
.ing stage three times a week to Brooklyn. Fare 
iif'ty cents. Leaves John Bradwell's at eight 
o'clock A. M., and Jacob Hicks', Brooklyn, at 
three I'.M. A bag for letters is hung up at Abra- 
ham Duryea's, 107 Flymarket, New York. 

1803, March 25. — Johu Hudson, of Flashing, 
was accidctUally di'owned, as it seemed. 

1803, Aj)ri:l 14. — Yesterday morning, at eleven 
o'clock, the bam of Mr. John Moore, at Hempstead, 



was discovered to be on fire from a cask of un- 
slacked lime. The wind blowing vcrv fresh from 
the southward it communicated to thebarn of Mr. 
Abraham Bedell, and thence to the Presbvteriau 
church, all which were entirely consumed together 
with two of Mr. Moore's horses. — Mer. Adi\ 

1803, June 10.— Benj. Ti-edwell, of Hempstead, 
while crossing a mill-flue, fell in and beiug alone* 
was drowned. 

1803, June 18. — Samuel llanley, of Hempstead, 
was accidentally drowned while fishing with an 
eel-net iu the South Bay. 

1801, J(i}i. 18. — For sale, a middle-aged negro 
woman, brought up in the country, who is of an 
uncomm<inly fine temper for one of her color. 
Having lately become discontented with her pres- 
ent situation is the sole cause uf her being ofiered 
for sale. Apply to George Codwisc, Jr., Jamaica. 

1604, Jan. 27. — Several mad dogs Lave been 
seen during the last seven daj's in the neighlior- 
hood of Musqueto Cx)vc and Cadar Swamp, which 
have bitten one or two pei-sons and a number of 
cattle, hogs, &c. Some of which have died of hy- 
drophobia ; others, are killed and it is suspected 
brought to the New York market for sale. — i'fC. 
l>Ost. 

1804, March 2.— Susan Brackett, Kenipstcad, 
was frozen to death while going across the bay in 
a boat. 

1804, J««e IG. — James 3Iott,of Hempstead, by 
accident fell iu Jamaica bay and was drowned. 

ISOJ, April 14. — At an adjourned meeting of 
Eepublican delegates from all the towns of (jjueens 
County, at the Court House, Judge Sclienck, 
Chairman, and Isaac T. Keeve, Secretary, Alorgan 
Lewis, was nominated for Governor and Samuel 
Biker for Congress. Isaac T. Beeve, Col. Jacob 
S. Jackson, Jacob Carpenter and .James Jlitchcll 
were appointed to communicate the proceedings to 
Suflblk county and to stand as a committee of said 
county. The meek and unostentatious Cary Duun 
appeared iu the interest of Col. Burr but he and 
his associates were requested to withdraw — Amer. 
Citizen. 

1804, April 14. — J. V. Uttrn offers for sale his 
farm of four hundred and thirty-one acres, called 
H3-de I'ark, for many years the residence of 
Charles ifoulton. The grounds are laid out in an 
unusual style of beauty and elegance, and it has 
more the appearance of an European seat than any 
iu this countr}-. There is an abundance of com- 
mon game and it is contiguous to the plover, and 
not very distant from the grouse and deer grounds. 
On it is a house fifty-two by thirty-six feet, a 
grccn-housc with orange trees and various other 
e.xotics, a suBimer-house, two farm-houses, a barn, 
two hay-barracks, stabling for twenty horses and 
cattle, a cattle-shed, coach-house, pig and fowl- 
house, cider-house and press, a garden, a.sj)aragus- 
beds, fruit trees and flowers roots, fifteen or twenty 



IN OLDEN TIMES, 



93 



acres t)f orcharding of peaches, clierries, apples, 
pears and every other fruit selected from Europe, 
and the best nurseries here. — i're, PcisL 

1S04, July 2. — Jeremiah Vrmderhilt and Thom- 
as Cornell run a neat coachce with steel springs 
and four horses, from Far Rockaway to l^rooklyu 
ferry. J. Y. thanks his customers for iho very 
liberal favors conferred on him from year to j'car, 
which have induced liitn to make still further fca- 
provemcuts. His house iu a pleasant lUiA healthy 
situation, is one hundred feet in frojt, with apart- 
ments for separate lodgings, and an air}- dining 
room twenty by thirty-six feet, with six large 
windows. He has laid iu a good stock of li(iUors 
of tlic first quality. ^ 

1804, Sejjf. 17.— ^Die^d, early this -morning, 'the 
Rev. Henry Van .Dyck, aged sixt}-, one of the 
clergy of the Protestant Episcopal church, and 
formerly rector of St. James church, Newtown. 
He was possessed of an affectionate heart and ex- 
cellent understanding. He :discharge<l with zeal, 
fidelitj^and ability,-Llic duties ofiiis calling. Iu 
private life ' he ■ was esteemed by all to whom he 
was known. Euneral this afternoon, at five 
o'clock, fromliis house. No. 4 Cedar^ Street, New 
York, wJjerc his friends and acquaiatauce are in- 
vited to attend. — ErcPett. 

ISOi, Sept. ' 19. — Joshua Sands and .James 
CoriTvi'alt offer for sale the farm of the'late Colonel 
Lewis ■ Cornwall, containing three hundred acres, 
callcdSpriug Kill, at the head of Flushing Bay, 
with fine timber, fresh and salt meadow. The 
mansion lias a^viGW of the bay and sound. — £ic. 
I'ost. 

1804, Scpi. 35.- — For sale, by Benjamin Prince, 
Flushing, one hundred barrels of choice Newtown 
pippin apples now fit to he put up so as to be sent 
with safety to the Southern States, West Indies or 
Europe. Warranted sotmd and uubruiscd. 

1802 April 20. — At a Republican meeting of 
the committees from the different towns of Queens 
count}', at the Court House, Benj. Coc, Chairman, 
and Wm. L Vredenburgh, Secretaiy, it was agreed 
that Gen. John Smith should bo supported for 
Congress, John Schonck for the Senate and Robt. 
Moore,* Abm. Moufort and Henry 0. Seaman for 
the Assembly. — yl;«(?r. CitUcn. 

1804, Dec. 24. — About four o'clock this morning 
the house of Jeffrey Smith, Beaver I'ond, JaKiaicn, 
took fire aceidentally (by a spark from the hearth 
as is supposed) and spread so rapidly before it .was 
discovered that the house was enveloped in flames 
before any soul had made their cscapp. A little 
boy and girl, however, had jast-tHne to escape bj' 
leaping through the smoke from a window and ran 
to a neighbor's. Before assistance could come all 

*Majiir iloorc of Xcwtown, wns dcfcitod by Stephen 
C.innaii, whu was a standing candidate for tlie Assembly 
from Hempstead from 17t--i to ]!^I9, and was elected twen- 
ty-one times. — Ed. 



was over. Mrs. •■§. ifith three cfeiildren, who all 
slept in the .same bed 'Vi'ith her, was burnt to death 
and lay buried in the ruins. The husband and 
father of the woman had left home the preceding 

evening to be early in Fly Market. 
« 
1805, July 1. — John Mott and Jeremiah Yan- 
derbilt* have erected a new stage, with four horses, 
which will accommodate eleven passengers. It 
will Tun twice a week from Far Rockaway to 
Brooklyn. Their respective houses, which are 
large and aiiy, . command a beautiful prospect of 
the occau, aiud arc now ready for companj-. 

"180.5, Nor. 6. — Elisha Blossom launched a ship 
from his shiii-y^itl inside of Plum Beach, Manhas- 
sot, where Walter Csruwell now lives. — EtL 

1800-06. — The Aurorau Association of North 
Hempstead met at the school-house, Flower Hill, 
Saturday eveniwgs for mutual improvement, by 
reading and debating. The President was John 
Kissam and the Secretary Singleton Mitchell. — 
The other members were : 



Gea Baker, 
Isaac Bogarf, 
John Biutis, 
Abni. Brinckcrboff, 
Eiebardson Cornell, 
Isaac l*odjj:e, 
^\'nl. Dodee, 
Obadiali Uemilt, 
Han-y Demilt, 
Peter Demilt, 
Lewis S. Hewlett, 
James Hewlett, 
Daniel Hoogland, 
Andries Hea:eman, jr. 
Peter Hej^'eman, 
Elbert Hcfreman, 
James Mitchell, 



Peter OndcrJonk, 
Minne Onderdonk, 
Lott Onderdonk, 
Joseph Onderdonk, 
Daniel Rapelye, -^ 
Benj. Sands, 
Wni. Sands, 
Geo. G. Sands, 
Kay Sands, 
Obadiah Sands. 
Geo. Seaman, 
John W. Seaman, 
Minne Schenck, 
Monis Salt, 
John M. Smith. 
John B. Thorp. 



1806, Jan. 9. — One daj' this week, Thome's 
Mills at Musquito Cove, took-fire-by the friction of 
the machinery and were totally cowsumed together 
with a vessel lying at the Jlill?. Ten thousand 
bushels of gi'aiu and a large quantity of flour were 
destroyed. — X. Y. Paper. 

To whom it nini/ coneenl.—^Xh(Jreaii application 
hath this day been made to us, Benjamin Trcdwell 
and Lott Onderdonk, Overseci's of the poor of the 
town of NortlrHerapstead, by' Joseph Onderdonk, 
of the same place to have his negro slave named 
Jf ike manumitted and set free, we do hereby certi- 
fy that v.e have made enquiry in the 'premises and 
believe 'the said slave is under the age of fifty 
years and of snfficient ability to provide for him- 
self and we approve that he be manumitted and 
set free. In witness whereof wc have hereunto 
set our hands this 27th day of March in the year 
of ov.r Lord 180G. Eenjnn.in Treadwell, Lott (_)n- 
derdoiri^, Overseers of the poor. 

This is to certify tliat I manumit and set free 
my male slave Uitmed Mike, as the statute of this 
state requires. JOSEPH ONDERDONK. 



•Mr. Vanderbilt died >i;iv 4, If-'OT. 



94 



QUEENS COUNTY' 



ISoiJ, May 10. — Vote of Queens couuty for ^ly- 
ator.-i and ^Icmbera of Aascmbly: 



Senate. 


S 

s. 


1 


3- 

a 


3 
S" 


O 

3- 


3"-- 
1 

E3 

orj ■ 


1 


RenJ. Coc, Rep * - 
Jobn 1). Ditmis Ri>p 
Samuel Jones, I'cd. 


Id 
t 38 
- 64 


107 
7'.>. 
44 


106 

• 5 

3C 


115 

21 

164 


61 

11 
itH 


47 

9 

27 


444 

163 
436 


A»S. Urp. 
















John W. Scaiimu* - 
Isani- LiffcrU, - - 
Williani Mott,' - - 


109 

r>f; 

10 


)-23 
)4a 
119 


li7 
123 


73 
141 

250 


74 

5C! 
5tJ 


llfl 
72 
70 


021 

596 
030 


Ass. tr,l. 
















Stephen Cariiian," - 
Win. TownsenJ, - 


77 
82 


59 
17 


37 
29 


342 
157 


70 

18a 


42 
44 


627 

517 


'Elected. 

















tTliis was a pccund repubKcnn Domiiiatidn. TTie party 
was split Ijj til'- (iisscnsions «.►£ (loviTiior Li.-wis ana Ue- 
Witt L'liutun. — Hammond's Snr Yink, I. 'J!!.'). 

18GG, Jttne 9.— Hamilton Ilnll, situated at tlie 
plea.«ant and healtliy village of Flusliiii;^- In this 
academy arc; tani^ht, the (ireek, Latin, i'rcucli and 
Enjfli.ili laiiijua-jes ; and (ieiinan and Hebrew, if 
rcfjuired, also the various branehos of Matlieniaties, 
Reading, Writing, Arillimetic, English griimniar, 
Hook-keeping agreeable to the newest i)rineii)ies, 
Geograpli}' and use of the globeji. 'J'he niopt ap- 
proved plans of education are pursued under the 
direction of a capable and ajiprovcd teacher. The 
tru.stee:i visit and examine the school at stated 
time.-*. Board and tuition reasonable. ConinHini- 
cation with Xcw York daily liy stage and sloop. — 
Attention i)aid to the health and morals of young 
persons sent for education. Foreigners, wlio wisii 
their children taught Knglish, will be well satisiied 
with the Principal, who has been reguhtrly, educa- 
ted in the university of (Jottingen. The tru.steos 
are AVilliani I'rince, 'J'homa,'* J'hilips. U.ivid Gar- 
dener, Samuel H. ^'an Wyck and 1 i;(i>iol Jilood- 
good. 

]80r,, Aii'^. 1-2.— Yesterday a mitch for -SoOO 
was made on two genth.-men against time to walk 
from Belts' tavern in Jamaica to 'J'yli'r's at Kock-' 
away, a distance of eighteen inile.s, and ;wiin with 
case. They performed-. it in tla-ce hours, forty 
tuinutcs, being twenty minutes within time. — Kve^ 
Post. 

180G, Oct. 1. — At a meeting of the practitioners 
of I'hysic and Singery at the Court House, Henry 
Mott C'hairm in and Thomas Cock, Secretary; the 
following otlicers were chosen by ballot: Daniel 
^lenemi, I'nsidoit : Henry ^lott, Vicr J'rci:i(l()it : 
Thoinris Cock, Sccrdart/ : James Searing, Tniis- 
urcr : Gilbert Smi!l'.,i Isaial^.Straw, Nathan Shel- 
ton, Austin Ch.ii)ni:Ui and Ebenezer Lockwoud, 
Censors: Henry Mott, Jkhijutc. The Annual 
meeting Avill be held the first Monday in Jinie. 
Drs. Smith, Shelton and Straw were ai)pointed a 
committee to form by-law»-4o.be produced at the 
next •meeting. 

180C, Oct. 10.— Died at riandome, aged C9, ei" 



;i« <>poT))eetie fif, itary Ivatham relict of the late 
llobert 5iftcfr'eH '! nd in-.ther of Dr. -S. L. Mitcliell, 
Semitor to the United .States. .She was an excel- 
lent parent, and was- interred in the Friends' burial 
j5round at Cow Xeck, Dear her venerable grand- 
iathur, Josejih r>,itb:r!flv wUo near a century ago 
gave the land for the pui'pof'c of a Meeting house 
and cemetery to that Society. 

ISOG, iWr. ."iO.— Elizabeth Dennis, ( lyslerbay, 
was accidentally shot in the head bv.a gun in the 
hands of Mr. Still, Vho w.i* in her cor.ip.'iny} at)' 
Saojuel Minor's, wheieof she died instantly. 

1807, Feb. 23.— Oil Friday at five r. 31. a large ! 
boat of the old ferry Brooklyn, laden with ilonr, ' 
which was stowed too much in Iier bows sunk in 
the middle of the river, with six persons on bo;ird 
who were picked up by boats which went olT to 
their •assistance.* | 

1807, ^Tmrli ll.-D. V.. F.' Jones of Queens-' 
and .Sanuiel Bishop, of .Sutl'olk, are appointed to ' 
aid and assist stranded vessels. 

1807/ Aprd 1, — Benjaiuin Banies MotI, a shoe- 
maker, living at the landing, west side of Manilas- ; 
set valley, in a drunken quarrel heat his wile I^nrali I 
so that ai.e died Al>ril 3rd, of a wonnd on her head. 
I'eter Willis sat l>y the fireside and told Benjamin I 
he had not given her half enough. Tliey were , 
tried, June 2.>th, for manslangnfewr and sent to the ' 
states prisoiv, Jieiijamin for fourteen years and 
Peter, as accessory,. Jbr three years. Burnos was. 
pardonod 3Iay 22, \i>lO.—Ed'.' i 

1807, .4j)»'(76.-— James Bloodgood at his nursery 
Flushing, has for rsle Englisli and French cherry , 
trees', pluius, jieaohcs. apricots, nectarines, pears, ; 
apples, fjninces, aiiiionds. Madeira nuts, black wal- 
nut, Lombardy poi)lars, weeping willows, currants 
raspberry, gooseberry, strawberry, lilac, honey, 
suckk*. and roses, with an assortment of flower- 
ing shrubs. They will be imt up so as to go to 
any part of Europe or America. 

1807, April 28. — J«hn Wood, of Fluslun^ vrA» 
drowned accidentally as it appeared. 

1S07, ^Iiitf ^. — l)ied at Flnsliing, Colonel Isaac 
Corsa, in the eighti(-th year of his age, an old and 
respectable inhabitant of New York. He was 
trulv a charit.ible christi.an, and an honest, upright 
and benevolent man. See Hiker's Newtown. — Ed. 

1S07, Ma>j 22. — .Joseph Tyler respectfully in- 
forms the public and liia friends in particular that 
his honau at , Far Bockaw.iy i.s ready for their 
reeejition and accommodation. The best wines, 
(particularly champaign and Madeira) and other 
liquors of the first qualitj'. Likewise good stabling. 



ly 



".lolm Simonson, of Hompsteail, sinco Sliariflf was in 
ntiothcr ferry hnat crossinfj tin- river ,it the time and when 
1m> %iivi tile ai-(*ident lie srize.l tho helm tVeni tlie IVrrynian, 
and steered directly tliron^'h the midst of the flontinp pft.s- 
senjrers and harrels and resinod aniim); (ither.t Sanniel 
JacktDU and Newhiiry Hewlett t'runi a watery prave.— A'l/. 



liSr OLDEN TIMES, 



95 



1807, May 2. — Vote of Queens couuty for Gov- 
ernor, Senate (in part), and Assembly. 



S!- 



Governor. 


1 


g 
t 

o 
p 


O 


p 

B 


S2| 

O 


1 


c 


Tompkins, Ee]i. 
Lewis, Fed. - - 


155 

no 


74 

82 


ISo 
153 


148 
42 


146 
64 


65 
71 


773 
522 


Stnate 
















EeWitt Clinton Eep 
Samuel Joues, Fed. 


150 


70 
S5. 


169 
.107 


137 
42 


123 
C7 


65 

67 


710 
531 


Ass. Hep. 
John \V. Scaniau, 
H. 0. Seaman, - - 
Jacobus Jloulbrt, ■ 


1?9 

SOS 
209 


112 
95 

100 


120 

280 
140 


156 
103 
172 


170 
168 
109 


95 
94 
92 


842 

1008 

884 


Ass Fed. 
















Stciiiicn Carman, 
AVni. Touiisoud, 


132 

207 


100 
107 


320 
162 


35 

48 


74 
■ 76 


90 
92 


751 
632 



Our friends in Queens have exceeded our expec- 
tations. Tliey have done themselves honor, and 
their country great service. The Eepublicau as- 
•scmbly ticket has succeeded by an immense ma,ior- 
ity. Carman who represented the connty last year 
in the Assembly, oiir friends have very properly 
ordered to stay at home. — Amer. Cilis:en. 

1507, Oct 10.— Jordan Hall, Oysterbay, fell in 
the water <accideutally and was drowned. 

1807, Dec. 12.— A Mr. Erwin, at Cow Neck, 
shot himself. 

1808, Feb. 20.— Amos Dickenson, Oysterbay, 
accidentally fell out of a boat and was drowned. 

1808. Fel). 20.— John Bennet, Cow Neck, was 
drowned. 

1508, Jilarch 19. — John Nostrand, and six hun- 
dred others, pray the Legislature that as the Court 
House now needs some repairs, a new one may 
be erected in Hempstead, which is populous, cen- 
tral, well-watered, and has houses of entertainment. 
lu the present situation are a scarcity of buildings 
and a want of accommodation for man and beast, 
in stormy weather. — Ass. Jour. 

1808. — At a large and respectable meeting of the 
Republican electors of Queens County, al; the 
Court Plouse, April 19th, John Schenck, Chairman, 
and Singleton Mitchell, Secretary, John AV. Sea- 
man was nominated tor Congress ; Benjamin Coe, 
for Senator, and Jacobus Monfoort, William ilott 
and Isaac Leiferts, for Assembly. - 

The Federalists elected their members, viz : 
Stephen Carman, Daniel Kissam and William 
Townsend ; whereat the Ilepublicau organ, the 
Amciiccm Citizen, thus expresses itself: 

The counties of Kings and Queens are gone — for the 
present, defunct. This aberration from the cause is ex- 
tremely regretted by its friends in New York. To lose 
reputation is to lose everything. The cause is kuo^vn and 
we arc assured that the triumph of FederaUsm is but mo- 
mentary. Divide and conc|uer is the motto of our oppon- 
ents. Can it be believed that, contemning everytliing Fed- 
eral, the IJepublicaus of Queens and Kings Counties have 
adopted it t They have been divided and ingloriously 
beaten. 



1808, Ilcaj 30. — Benjamin Seaman, (dias Tuin, 
,a negro living near Jerusalem, being in liquor, 
called at the house of Adam Gordon (colored), 
while he was absent working for Jacob Mills, and 
asked his wife to quit Adam and live with him. 
Adam soon heard of this and went to Ben's to de- 
mand au explanation.- Ben rose from his seat 
and seizing a corn-hoe, standing at the door, struck 
Adam a blow that cut through his hat and broke 
hia skull. Adam fell, rose to grapple with his 
assailant, and then fainted. His wife, on hearing 
of the quarrel, went to look after her husband, 
and found him sitting ag.ainst a tree in the shade 
and led him home. He died the next night. Ben. 
was tried, June 23d, and hanged, September Sth, 
in a hollow on the Plains, south-east of the Court 
House. — Ed. 

1808, July 5. — William Taylor was accidentally 
drowned at Far Eockaway beach. His body was 
taken up there and conveyed to Jamaica, where 
an inquest was held. 

1808, Au;) 19. — A treasure was found iu New- 
town by a schoolboy, John, infant son of Daniel 
Riker. It was a bag of gold, valued at -$840, 
which had belonged to John Kearns, a schoolmas- 
ter, and was hid during the Revolution. See 
Biker's Keidoicn, p. 148. — Ed. 

Names of persons, either pewholders or who 
contributed to the support of Grace Church, Ja- 
maica, from 1803 to 1809 : 

1803 

1808 
1802 
1802 
1802 
1802 
1808 
1807 
1806 
1802 
1807 
1802 
18(^2 
1807 
1809 
1802 
1802 
1802 
1802 



Jlary Austin, 
Jacob Bedell,* 
Thomas Betts, 
Richard Betts, 
Cornelius I. Bogart, 
iSIrs. Eliza Brewer, 
Josiah Brown, 
Samuel Carman, 
George Codwise, jr., 
Peter Cortelyou, 
Aaron Cortelyou, 
Creed & Mills, 
Mr. Clarke, 
Henry Cruger, Esq., 
Horace Dayton, 
Jlrs. J. Depeyster, 
Mark Diesosway,t 
Eliza.Dunbart 
John Dunn, 



1807|Caleb Mills, 
IPeter Mills, 
1802lMills &. Creed, 
1802: James Mon-ell, 
1808 Joseph Morris, 
1802|Dr. Daniel Mcnema, 
1 802 1 George Nafis, 
1809)Andrew- Napier, 
1802 Timothv Nostrand, 
Joseph'Oldfield, 
Edward Parker, 
William Puntine, 
1806 Abraham Polhemus, 
1807|Johannes Polhemus, 
1802 Frederick Polhemus, 



1802 
1807 
1809 



1802 
1802 
1809 
1602 



Joseph Eoe, 
Lawrfnce Koc, 
Benjamin Rowland, 
David Rowland, 



y 



*Bedell was clerk of the church. 

tDissosway was father and chief patron of the Methodist 
church, Jamaica. His hospitality wa? unbounded. Som&- 
times nine horses at once stood in his stable whose riders 
(itinerant ministers) sat at his table. 

tit was at the widow Dunbar's that the Kev. Timothy 
Clowes boarded, and contracted a matrimonial engagement 
with her cta»»lrter, Mary, which was subsequently broken 
off by mutual agreement. The people would not let the 
matter drop thus, but took sides for and against their min- 
ister. Mr. Clowes having allowed some disparaging re- 
marks to escape his lips, Miss Dunbar, at the instigation of 
her friends, brought suit against him in the Supreme Coiut, 
New York, Oct. 30thj 1810, by her attorney, Martin S. 
Wilkius. The ablest counsel were employed on both 
sides, and the jury rendered a verdict, M.ay 4th, 1812 
of .1f4,00o damages, and six cents costs. Meantime Mr. 
Clowes had accejited a call to St. Peter's Church, Albany. 



23 



9C 



QUEENS COT-NTY 



\ 



Carv liiniii, Jr., Ksc)., 
L. K. A. ^.iJ.^•nl)^oJt, 
.Samuel JKIdert,* 
Mrs. F!D);lfls3, 
I Clmrles Fiiiur, 
.Samuel Orcenonk, 
Archibald Cirac-ic, 
Thomas Greswold, 
Captain Hall. 
Mrs. Harrison, 
Urias Hendrickson, 
John Huwlett, jr., 
Stephen Hicks, 
Hinclinian «.V: Smith 
Rachel llinchmau, 
John Hinehnian, 
Sally Hinchman, 
William H. Hitchcock, 
Dr. 1). M. Hitchcock, 
John Hoofrland, 
Jonathan Jones, 
Ilnfus King, 
Daniel Kissam, 
Benjamin T. Kissam, 
Sarah Latting.t 
James Lawrence, 
Obadiali Leech, 
Abraham Leech, 
Major Charles McNeil, 
Captain John Miittley,} 
JamoE Mackerel, jr., 
James 5Iackerel, 
Miss Elcie Martin, 



l-iili.\Irs. Ann .'<iriba, J-ilII 

IKK.'.IoMepliSeelT, ti^in 

IfWWilliam A. Sale, If^OS 

lt?02Augustus Sackett, ]8I ] 

18(l.-^.Iames Spronle, iHO'.t 

l-ii-JDr. Xath.-m Shulton, J-07 

i-i'IMnhn Skiilnioro, ]-ti-2 

li~U(;\Villctt SUidmore, I'^ffi 

180i)Joremiali Siiiionsnn, If('3 

If'U-i.'^mith & Hinchmau, ]rii7 

18i)-.>Chri.sto|iher Smith, Jfed'i 

l.-(CJIIe«ter P. Smith, ]!r07 

l.-(h>Kathi\rine Smith, l.-d* 

l-i(K'J..hn Thatlord, ]^•02 

l.-0-.>.lose])h Thatford, l^&i 

l-^N:jLiRretia Tibbals, Id'iit 

ISrti.Iuhu Troup. 1.^(12 

l.-^ll-.Mrs. I'udorhill, L-JOi 

ISOltlviih.ml Van Dam, liUfi 

|.-01)Mrs. \:m Liew, iSm 

l)*(K.Kihn Van Liew, JrdS 

ISOd.Iohn Van Xostrand, L-W 

l-rO-JAaron Van Nustraud,|| ].-i(lH 

l!-fl2.Ieremiah Val-ntine, If^OiJ 

ISa.Mrs. James W.aters, I"^<ni 

l.-'OiJ.Iohn Wat.rs, ]H(W 

ISDHiliss Woolendale.J 1802 

18l)HJohn W. Welling, L-02 

If^OSSanniel Wrlling, 1;^02 

l.-02Thomas Welling, }!^(I2 

lC(»2Richard Wiggin.i, lf-02 

IHOaKlizabclh Wilson, 18J1 

m>2 



180S, Dec. 29.— Xicliolas Wykoff w.ais Cliairman, 
and Daniel Lmllura, Secretary, of a meeting of tlio 
inliabitaiits of Kings and Queens Counties, .it tlic 
hou?e of George Carpenter, Jamaica, who were op- 
posed to making a turnpike from Jamaica to 
Brooklyn, 

1809, March 1. — Mrs. Joanna llincbman, Ja- 
maica, was clicked by a bone of a bccf-stcak, from 
the efiects of wLich sbe died. 

ISOd, April 1, — David Plummer, wbilc gunning 
ou rium Beach, Manbassct, shot biiuself. 

1S09. — Brooklyn, Jamaica and I'latbusli Turn- 
pike. — Books for subscription will bo opened April 
lOtli, at the inn of Benjauiin Sniilb, Brooklyn; at 
the inn of Joliu Scboonniaker, I'latbusli; at the 
inn of Daniel Voorlices, Bedford ; at the inn of 
Abrali.im Bedell, Hempstead ; at tbo inn of Plutt 
Carl, .Suffolk Count}' ; at tlic inn of Isaac I'latt, 
Jamaica. The Commissioners are ; 'William I'ur- 
man, John C. Vaudervecr, Lambert .Suydani, 
George Cod wise, Jr., Eliphalet ^Vickcs, Jolm D. 
Ditmis, 

1809, 3Iai/. — Vote of Queens County for three 
Members of Assembly : 



'.She was widow of a sea-captain. 

tOr Laton. She was born Ifapelye. 

}Hc had been engaged in the sonthern coasting tr.iJe, 
and latterly was a merchant in Ne\v Vorl;. 

||Hc was sexton of the church and h.is left a record 
from 177;! to ]t*2(tof the interments in the church yard, 
where he himself was buried, January M'M, ll?22, at the age 
of eighty-fonr. 

fShe kept n boarding .ind day school in Jamaica, but 
aemoved to Brooklyn in May, 1S(I4. 



lUpubliciin. 



I'ldcral. 



P-. ^ 



150 


1.55 


15-S 


85 


65 


t*3 


7'J 


78 


78 


92 


W 


£3 


I-U 


17!i 


178 


i>-3 


99 


96 


Itl 


172 


170 


3:15 


339 


341 


1-2'J 


125 


lai 


102 


107 


105 


I(i4 


SIrf 


240 


421 


4i.ll 


395 



Jamaica. - - - 
Flushing,* - - - 
Newtown, - - - 
Oysterb.iy. - - - 
North Hrmpslcad, 
Ucuipntcad, • ■ - 



9«y 920 907 ll.?8 llt:3 1173 

1809, June 2-2. — Rhoda .Seaman, Oysterbay, 

sued Simeon Searing, in the Quceus Coun'ty Court, 

for a breach of promise, and recovered six cents 

damages. Issue was joined June 12tb, 1807. 

1809, Jidi/ C.-Polly, daughter of John Piatt, 
wliile crossing the Big Mill dam, Cowbay, fell otV 
and was drowned. 

1809. — Jiuncs Titus, of Newtown, died, August 
24th, from a blow, received two days before, ou 
tlie right side. .Si.K minutes before his dealii, ho 
said it was by an oar in the hands of John Harper, 
at the South B.ay landing, whither the}- had gone 
to get clams. Harper hud previously loosened two 
of ins teetli by tbrowing a clam-shell in his face, 
and had also had him down in the water. 

1809, J\"o!'. 14.— Jacob Verity, for larceny, is 
sentenced, by tlio Queens County Court, to -jeceivc 
thirt^'-iiine lashes to-morrow, at ten o'clock. — 
Court Minutes. 

1810, Jan. 20. — Dr. Daniel Mcneraa, of Jamai- 
ca, aged fifty-si.K, died at seven in the morning, 
and Josejih ^lorris, the barber and hair-dresser, 
(whose wife cooked and washed fur the doctor) 
died at seven in the evening. The nest .Sunday 
after the burial of the above, and Mr. Grucy's 
child, Daniel, the llev. Jlr. Faitoute preached from 
Is. 38 ; 1 : " .Set thine house in order. Sec." 

Dr. Jlencma was surgeon of the .Second New 
York Ik'gimeut in the licvolulionaiy war, and a 
memlier of the Cincinnati. He was a large, har.d- 
some man and jiroud of his person. He was rc- 
jmted an able pliysiciau and said to be kind and 
liberal to the poor. Dr. Sheltou succeeded to his 
practice. — Ed. 

1810, Fell. 5. — Between two and three o'clock, 



"In riushing the Democratic party made the greatest 
cft'iirts for several weeks before the election to gain the ma- 
jority. The most base and unfair means were made use of 
by tlieir leaders. Judge WyckofT. a I'leucli tory, sjiread 
through every part of the township, the most infamous 
haiulliills. Still the I'cderal party jirevailed and gave their 
candidates a handsome majority. 

It would be well if all those protending to be "Demo- 
crats '' could olVer so eonclusive a proof of th.oir own 
" Democracy," as is furnished in the above ollicial relnrus. 
Unfortunately, however, many of those exclusive patriots 
were at that period on the adverse party, some individuals 
of which actually emi>loyed an honest bl.acksniilh to sjiik ■ 
n cannon, brought up to Flushing by this identical Jolu 
Wykotf to celebr.ttc the inauguration of President Jelie 
sou. — .V. J'. I'liper. 



ilm 

•r- 



Y 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



97 



P. M., a fire broke out iu the paper mill of Richard 
Kirk, of Iletupptead Harbor, [now Bryaut'i?] aud, 
notwithstanding the exertions of the neighbors, the 
whole buikling was entirely destroyed.— iJfC.Po-sY. 

1810, March 22. — Democratic Jit-^licc. — In 
Queens County, a few weeks since, a Jlr. Milne, 
of Oysterbay, a manufacturer of woolen cloths, 
and a Federalist; and John Wykoif, of Flushing, 
(one of the County Judges and a redoubtable Dem- 
ocrat) were conii>etitors. Although the piece ex- 
hibited by his Honor bore no comparisovi with 
Milne's, yet a majority of the judges on some fri- 
volous objection of the latter having been fulled 
and dressed out of tlie county, adjudged the bomi- 
ty toWykoff, notwithstanding that his cloth was de- 
ficient iu the width recjuired by law. — J\^. Y. PajjCr. 

1510, April 14. — Robert Hutchinson was foimd 
lying dead on the east side shore of Cow Neck, 
having been accidentally drowned, asTv'as thought. 

IS'IO, June 12. — Jacob Hendrickson, fiir larceny, 
is sentenced, by the County CV)urt, to receive thir- 
ty-nine lashes immediately. 

1810, June 27. — Abraham Ludlam, Newtown, 
was accidentally drowned. 

1810, Jrdi/ 6. — Headrick Goelet, Newtown, was 
accidentally drowned. 

1810, A tic/. 23. — On ^Wednesday, as Samuel 
Lawrence, of Ncwto'^^■n, was coming to the city iu 
a small boat he approached too near the Hancock 
rock, struck the reef aud was swept from his boat 
by the violence of the tide. He was taken up a 
.few moments after aud the customary means of res- 
toration were used without avail. His servant 
clung to the boat aud was saved. 

1810, Sc2)f. 3. — P. L. Turcpand and iMatthcAv 
Chichester have taken charge of the school adjoin- 
ing the Episcopal Church, in the village of _New- 
town, where they profess to teaeli the French and 
English languages, arithmetic, matliemafics, uavi- 
•gation, mensuration, surveying, geography, with 
use of globes, bookkeeping; writing, plain and or- 
namental. Board may be had in respectable fami- 
lies. The Trustees are : Rev. A. L. Clark, Timo- 
tliy Roach, John Rapelyc, Aaron Furman. 

1810, Dec. 25. — Increase, son of George Car- 
penter, was kicked by a horse so that the skuU- 
uone was laid bare about the size of a tea-cup. 

1511, March 1. — Owing to the inclement daj'S 
lately experienced, the price of wood is higher in 
New York than ever known before. Hickory sells 
from $12 to $13 a carman load, wliich is one third 
of a cord.* — Eve Post. 

1811. — Vote of Queens County for tln-ee mem- 
bers of Assembly, April 30th: 

* January 15th, 1S0.">, hickory scikl at the \vooJ yarjs for 
§21 a cord. A conQtryraan asked even .$S for a load ; and 
April 2, ]::^07, oak wood sold at .$5 per load, aluiost every 
house beins without.— £re. Post. 



liepiihlican. 



Fcdcyul. 



Oysterbay, - - 
Neivtowu, . - - 
North Hempstead, 
Hempstead, - - 
Jamaica, - - - ■ 
Flush'mg, - - - 



1^ 



165 
12:j 
]]3 

195 

103 

74 



f= -4 "-; 2, 

£ b ^2- 

P • j^i^ 

140 139 

112 112 

113 111 
233 214 
161 103 

69 83 



if 

324 
S4 
132 
424 
85 
S3 



C:3 

O) S3 



325 

84 

137 

411 

91 

93 



324 

85 
135 

400 
90 

87 



833 828 822 1132 1141 1121 
We are disappointed in the result of the elec- 
tion. It is to be feared that DeWitt Clinton* is 
destined by the fates to rule our councils with 
greater effect than ever. We shall not, however, 
despair of the republic. "We shall persevere iu our 
exertions and not relinquish our opposition to do- 
mestic tyranny. — N'. Y. Journal. 

1810, Jiili/. 28. — The site of the first Methodist 
Church, Jamaica, was the free gift of Israel Disos- 
way or his sister ; at the raising of which a seri- 
ous accident occurred. AU the frame had been 
erected except tlie rafters, aud instead of erecting 
these tv.'o by two, they were first all jiiled togeth- 
er on the beams of the newly erected frame, which 
broke down under the superincumbent weight and 
severely injiu-ed Smitli Hicks and Joseph Dunbar.f 

1811, June 14. — Anthony Casper, a white 
child, at Newtown, was accidentally drowned, as 
it appeared. 

1811, Dec. 23. — On Monday uight there was a 
tremendous snow storm and gale. Many vessels 
in the Sound were driven on the Long Island 
shore. 

1812. — Jamaica, Jan. 24. — I'esterday morning, 
at a quarter past nine, a shock of an earthquake 
was severely felt in this village. Everything sus- 
pended in my store was set in motion for more 
than a minute. The motion was a steady swing- 
ing backwards and forwards. The sliock was felt 
by my family aud several of my ucighlDors. — Cor. 
of N. Y. Spectator. 

1812, March 28.— Peter liegeman, JIanhasset, 
sells to Elbert liegeman, his half of their slave, 
Jesse, for 632 50. 

1812, April 8. — Lewis Hewlett, of Queens 
County, raised an ox which weighed, on the foot, 
two thousand four hundred and thirty-six pounds. 

1812, May 2C. — Smith Hicks has taken the 
well known stand at Jamaica, opposite the Episco- 
p.al Church, for many years kept as an inn ty 
Messrs. Bardin, Waters, and Battiu, successively. 

*C'liutoii was chosen Lieutenant Governor. — Hammond, 
1;291. 

tCaptain Thomas Webb, the principal founder of the 
American Jletliodist church, came to Jamaica, where hia 
wife's kindred lived, some time before thi Kevolution, hired 
a house and preached in it, and ■' twenty-four persons re- 
ceived justifying grace." — Stevens' History. 



98 



QUEENS COUNTY 



He l)a.« laid in a stock of tlie Lc^t liquors* and is 
provided with every article of accommodation 
Biiitcd to the whim of the most capricious traveler. 
The frequfuters of llockaway vill find hero a con- 
venient re.«ting place for themselves and horses. 

1812, M(t)/. — Vote of Queens County for Sena- 
tors (in part), and three Members of Assembly.! 





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314 


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214 


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105 


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70 35 




1121 1120 


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715 


791 153 



1812, Nov. 1. — A meeting was held at AVilliam 
and Dobson Allen's inn, Manhn.'spt, to con.=idcr 
the propriety of erecting a Reformed Dutch church, 
and subscription papers were handed around. 
The church was dedicated Christmas, 1S16, by 
tlie Rev. D. S. 13ogart. 

181S, Dec. 1. — 15cnj.imin Sands sells his grist- 
mill, at JIanha.'iset, to Andrew Onderdonk and 
Daniel Ilooglaud, for the purpose of a cotton-fac- 
tory. 

1812, June 13. — Rochaway Slarjes. — Thomas 
Barwise, Brooklyn, will run a new line, with four 
horses. Fare, 81 2ii. 

1812.— Sehih Smith, of Brooklyn, and Smith 
Hicks, will stTirt, August 3d, a new line of stages 
from Brooklyn to Kockaway and back, the same 
day, performing the whole in the short space of 
thirteen hours. Breakfast on the table at Smith 
Hicks', Jamaica, while the horses arc changing, 
and dinner at Silas Hicks', Rockaway. I'are, tfl. 

1812, Oct. 13.— The market-boat Little Trim- 
mer, Captain Abraham BrinckerhotT, from New 
York to Cow Bay, being too heavily loaded with 
brick, as she was putting about, run under water 
and sunk, off Plum Beach. 'J'lic passengers and 
crew escaped in the long boat to Great Neck, ex- 
cept one who swam ashore to Cow Xeck. Catha- 
rine Onderdonk lost SSO worth of clothing. 



18K 



-The dwelling-house of Nathaniel Lud- 



liim. Bog Lots, near Jamaica^ was burnt ou Thurs- 

*It was cu.stomary when a publican got in a new liops- 
heail of run) to invito all liis customcrii to try it. After 
tlity li»il tasteil, intorcliaDped opinions ami pronounced it 
good (as they usually did) that hogshead had a ix-udy sale. 
—Ed. 

tTliere was a split in the Eepuhlican jiarty, and Major 
Moore, of Newtown, was nominated by the " Qnida" or 
Jlurtlinpr Junto, who hold a meeting at tho Court House, 
April 6th. .lohn t^ehcuek bflinf,' Chairman, .-.ud Kuhort 
'I'ownseud, l^een.tary. Andrew (liiderdouk wa.'i .'<eiit as 
messenger with the nomination to SutYolk County. — Ld. 



day night, January 7th, with its contents. The 
family barely escaped. — L. I. Star. 

1813. — They began to pull down the old stone 
church that .«tood in the middle of the 5laiii Street, 
Jamaica, ^May 21tli. After the rubbish yaxn re- 
moved the ground under the church, anil especially 
in front of the judpit, was dug up and the remain's 
of those who had been buried there, were gathered 
up, put in a box and conveyed, in procession, 
headed by the sexton, Jeffrey Smith, to the town 
cemetery, where they were re-iuterr(<l. 

In olden times it was not unusual to bury the 
clergy beneath the ])ulpit, and people 6f conse- 
quence under their pews, while the inferior class 
was buried without the church. Hence the old 
epitaph : 

Here I lie outside the church door. 
Here I lie because I'm poor ; 
The further in, the more they pay ; 
iJut here I lie as snug as they. 

The Rev. 5Ir. Poyer in liis sermon, in this 
church, ilay 10th, 1719, on the death of his wife, 
Frances, in allusion to burials in the church, says : 
" And even here, in this church, where we now are, 
the graves on which some of your feet are, should 
put us all in mind what we mu.st expect." 

A burial in the yard of Grace church cost 12s. ; 
but in the church it was much doiirer. Dr. Field, 
17S1, paid fi)r laying his wife in church, ^'.0 ; for the 
grave, ci'l 4s.; taking up the floor 12*.; for four 
carriers, .£1, 12s.; funeral bell, 3s.; pall, 4s. ; in- 
viting, etc., 18s. 

■ 1813. — Caleb Mills, stage driver, Jamaica, was 
adjusting the head stall on one of his horses, when 
they started and struck him on the baek of the 
neck with the carriagc-totigue, causing a paralysis 
of the spinal column, whereof he died, September 
lOlh, notwithstanding tho skill of Dr. Post, who 
was sent for from New York. — Ed. 

1813, Sept. 11.— Tlie flotilla of gunboats, thirty 
in number, under Commodore Lewis, passed 
through Hellgatc,|On Thursday,* to Sands' Point.f 
in quest of the British armed vessels that were 
cruising in Long Island Sound, and annoying our 
commerce After maneuveriug against a strong 
tide, they cominonc(.'d firing at two and a half 
miles distance. A British frigate, supposed to be 
the Acasta, then drew out with the ajiparent in- 
tention of bringing the United States' flotilla to 
close action, which the gunboats were obliged to 
avoid, owing to the wind being too high to admit 
of fighting to advantage. After exchanging twen- 
ty or thirty shots, the flotilla came to anchor, and 
the frigate joined her con»orts. The latest ac- 



"Thursday wai appointed ag a Fast day by the Presi- 
dent. 

tlieujamin llewlatt sold the Government, July 15, 1808, 
five acres of land at Wulch or Sands' I'oint. for a lipht- 
houso, whieh was built by Xo.ih Mason. The lantern was 
ready for tho oil by Xovember, ISO!), when a festival was 
held there by the uei(;hbors v.ho were addressed bv Dr. S. 
L. Mitchell. 



IX OLDElSr TIMES. 



99 



counts say tlie enemy have returned to the east- 
wards—A^, r. Museum. 

1813- April. — Vote of Queens county for Gov- 
ernor and Assembh" : 



oovr.nxoR. 
Fed. niji. 



.1SSEMBLY. 
Fakriil. UejntUUan. 




Flus'.iiD'", -.-.56 77 85 SO 85 106 103 ]01 

Newtown, - - 151 73 J73 172 176 87 86 87 

Jamaica, - - I'iD 83 153 153 153 100 99 99 

N. Hempstcail, 75 120 1-27 126 123 1.'54 151 1.55 

Ilcmpstead, - 124 404 134 SOI 183 522 520 514 

Oysterbav, - 130 221 201 201 203 375 373 372 



071 983 923 933 923 1344 1332 1323 

1813, N'ov. 10.— Long Island Sound was de- 
clared by the Admiral of the British srjuadrou to 
be in a state of blockade. 

18.13, Dec. 9. — Long Lsland barley sold in Xcv/ 
York, at .$1,60 per bu-shcl. 

1814. — Those inhabitants of Xcwtown who pre- 
fer the interests of their families and coiratry to 
the paltrj' schemes of speculators are requested to 
meet at Bernard Bloom's Inn, on Friday the 9th 
of Januarj', to consider the expediency of denying 
themselves the use of tea and sugar, till the exor- 
bitant prices are reduccd.t — L. I. Star. 

1S14, Jan. 12. — Died at Oysterbay after a short 
illness John Fleet Esq., ^Member of Assembly, 
distinguished for his luidcrstandiug, integrity and 
usefulness. 

ISH, Jan. 14. — A majority of the judges of the 
cotirt of Common Pleas of Queens county, award- 
ed Joseph Onderdonk of Manhasset, a premium of 
63-j, for the best piece of woolen cloth made in the 
coanty, being twenty-five yards in length and 
three-quarters wide. But as it was made in the 
factory of Messrs. Jones, Cold Spring, the Legis- 
lature by special enactment withheld the award .+ 
— Ass. Jour. 

1814, Jan. IS. — Sta^IPS, from five cents to five 
dollars, for notes to be di.scountcd, may be had at 
the office of B. F. Thompson, Deputy Collector of 
Internal Revenue, at Jamaica. 

tXumbers of the people on Cow Neck and vicinity went 
to Sands' Point to see tlie action. Captain Mason, keeper 
of the light-house, told them to scatter themselves, for fear 
the enemy, niistalting them for a body of armed men, might 
throw a shot among them. — Ed. 

tCoftee sold ,at 23 cents per pound; Hj-son tea .tl 94 ; 
►Souchong .$1 50 ; Sugar f 22 50 per hundred. The news of 
peace with Great Britain was received in New York, Feb- 
ruary 11th, whereupon sugar fell from $25 per hundred to 
$13. 

tThe Legislature in 1811 authorized the judges of the 
court of C^inunon -Pleas in each county of the state to 
award premiums "^from a fund provided by the state) for 

the best specimens of woolen cloth made in the family. 

This was continued for several years. — Ed. 



1814, March 8. — At a meeting of delegates from 
five towns of Queens county at the Court House, 
Hon. Cary Dunn jr.. Chairman and S. Siicrraan, 
Secretary, it was resolved unanimously that John 
Hazard of Jamaica, .James Lent of Newtown and 
Elbert liegeman, of Oysterbay, represent Queens at 
Tammany Hall, on the ICth inst., for nominating 
a Senator and Member of Congress. — L. I. Star. 

1814. — At a meeting of Repitbhcan delegates of 
the ditt'erent towns of Queens county, at the Court 
House, April 13th, "William Mott, Chairman and 
Micajah Townsend, Secretary; it Avas resolved 
unanimously that Daniel BedcU of Hempstead, 
Singleton JMitchell of North Hempstead, and Sam- 
uel Sherman of Oysterbay, be nominated as candi- 
dates for the Assembly,*and George Townsend for 
Congress. 

lSl4:,-3Iai/ 14. — Aspinwall Cornell part ov/ner 
of the sloop ximdia, took six hundred or seven hun- 
dred bushels of rye on freiglit to Rhode Island. — 
John liegeman (who had just removed to New 
Yoik from Manhasset) sent also five hundred bush- 
els of rj'e, and wont himself, being out of business. 
Jlnrk Jjynch went as a passenger gratuitously. — 
Robert G. Cornell and two hands wore also ' on 
board. As they entered the race, jMay 16, the tide 
■ ebbed and carried them toward Block Island when, 
they were boarded by a British barge of the Bul- 
wark, ship of war. Beside the rye, there were ten 
barrels of pork and eighty barrels of flour under 
the rye. The passengers A. Cornell, Hegemau 
and Lynch, were put ashore, but the vessel with 
R. G. Cornell and two hands was sent to Halifax 
as a prize. A. Cornell, Hegcman and Lynch were 
arrested, August 8th, for treason and after a tedious 
imprisonment were tried April 11, 181.5, in the 
United States Circuit Court, before Brockholst 
Livingston and were acquitted by the jury, without 
leaving the box, under the charge of the judge, for' 
lack of proof by the prosecution and they were not 
allowed to enter on a defence. — N^'Y. Commercial. 

1814 Aug. 3. — There were one hundred and 
twenty loads of fascines (twenty-five bundles eacli) 
brought from Jamaica to Brooklyn to aid in the 
construction of fort Greene. The Rev. Jacob 
Schoonmaker headed the procession, Mr. Eigeu- 
brodt and the pupils of the Academy assistcd-^tho 
people in cutting the fascines. 

1814, Aug. 16.— The boati? of the blockading 
squadron chased a small schooner ashore at Rock- 
aw'ay and set her on fire. Several gentlemen who 
were there on parties of pleasure, after the boats 
h.-id left the beach extinguisliedthc fire. Previous 
to firing her a gentlein.an went down from the Bath- 
house with a white flag to ransom the vessel, but 
was refused.- After the enemy left the beach, they 
fired a number of shots at the persons who were 
extinguishing the flames. — N. Y. Gazette. 



*Th6 Federal candidates, Stephen Carman, Daniel Kis- 
sani and Sol. Wooden were elected to the Assembly, as also 
was Townsend to Congress. 



24 



100 



QUEENS COUNTY 



1814, Si'pf.7. — There are one tliousniid two hun- 
dred of General Johnson's hrigadc of iiifmtrv, 
from Kings and Queens countici* now oncaunjcd 
on Fort Greene, Urooklyn. 

1S14, Oct. 2G. — The committee of defence under- 
standing that a number of citizena on Long I?hind 
arc desirous of evincing their devotion to their 
country, inform them tliat several thou.«and fa.jciues 
are wanted for the construction of Fort Greene, 
and that patterns arc left at Crced'n tavern, Jamai- 
ca, and at Bloom's, Xcwtowu. 

181-3, Jan. 4. — The liogs of Mr. Peter ITcgcman, 
Cow Nock, lately rooted up a' largo rjuantity of 
gold and silver, at least S220, whicli had been 
buried in the ground since the llcvolution, and for- 
gotten. — L. I. Slttr. 

ISlo, Feb. — Samuel Youngs of Oystcrbay ofTors 
for sale a stout able bodied slave, twcnty-si.v 3'ears 
old, now confined in jail for absenting himself from 
his master's service. 

1815, Feb. 8.— The elegant house of tlie late 
Isaac T. lieevo at I'lainville, formerly the iivojier- 
ty of Colonel Ludlow and anciently the residence 
of Governor Dongan was burnt on Sunday morning 
last. The fire caught from an opening of the bricks 
of the chimney whicli bad just been burned. 

1SI'>, Feb. .'22.-T-T!ie news of peace was celebra- 
ted at Hempstead harbor by firing volleys of musk- 
etry at seven A. :\r. The flags waved all day from 
the paper mills, factory and shoe-shop of Mr. Dan- 
iel liogart. At noon and evening, salutes were 
fired by pistols. la the evening tlic housvs were 
illuminated and appropriate toasts drank at the 
house of the llev. JJavid S. ]5ogart. Jamaica, 
Flushing and other principal villag<'S on Long Is- 
land, were also illuuiiuated. 

1815 .March G. — K. 11. Jones resigns liis s^jat in 
the Senate. lie labors under a stricture of the 
breast and finds the air of Albany injurious to him. 

1815, March 25. — Last week Francis Baldwin of 
Hempstead, fell from the window of the house 
where he slept in Brooklyn (likely iu his sleep) 
and was killed. 

181-3, laiui/. — Vote of Queens County : 



Senate. 


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S. 

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P 





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5 

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317 


Gl 


103 


1(?3 


7S)0 


Jacob Harjcer, Deiu. 


115 


111 


117 


44 


52 


105 


544 


Assemlily. 
















Stephen Carman FoJ 


74 


70 


4 IS 


81 


113 


2fl0 


1046 


Daniel Kissani, Fed. 


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7U 


424 


811 


114 


293 


IO.VJ 


AVilli.ini Jones, Fed. 


4 i 


71 


4 IS 


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112 


2'.>7 


10.37 


Joseph I'eitit. Dent. 


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127 


175 


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John D.DilMiis.Deni. 


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lCi5 


747 


Sani'l 8hcrniau, Dem 


147 


127 


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Gl 


so 


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732 


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1815, Feb. IG. — Long Island sound was frozen 
over at Sand's Point. 

1815, Jtinc'2^. — At a meeting of the Clergy and 
Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church at (Mace 
Church, Jamaica, for the purpose of forming a 
society to distribute the Bible and common prayer 
book, after morning praj-ers, the lie v. Solh Ilart 
was appointed Chairman and F. C. Tucker, Secre- 
tary. The following officers were elected : Joshua 
Sands, President, Stephen Carman and AVilliam 
Jayue, Vice Presidents ; Kcv. E.3I. Johnson, .Sec- 
retfry and John 11. Jloore, Treasurer. The man- 
agers wore Judge .Selali Strong, John Van Nos- 
trand, Thomas ilarston, Timothy Roach, Abraham 
Sncdiker, Benjamin Hewlett, F. C. Tucker. 

1S15. — At a meeting of some of the iidinbitants 
of Long Island, of dilfcrent religious denomina- 
tions, hold August 1st, pursuant to public notice, 
at the Court House, for the jmrpose of forming a 
13ible Society, Adrain Van Sinderen was ai)point- 
ed Cli.iirman and James Lent Secretary, John Bas- 
set, William Boardman, Evan M. Johnson, Jesse 
Levcrich and Charles Wright were appointed a 
committee to report a constitution, which was 
agreed to. Itevs. Dr. Basset, Amos Bingliam, D. 
S. Bogart, E. 31. Johnson, Gilbert 11. .Sayres, Jacob 
Schoonmakor; and Jlcssrs. Daniel Bogart, Daniel 
Brinckorliolf, Joseph Dodge Jr., L. E. A. Eigen- 
brodt, Thomas F. Fish, \'alontine Ilicks, Dr. D. 
M. Hitchcock, Edward Howard, Thomas Law- 
rence, Jr., James Lent, Jesse Lc^erich, William 
Lcverich, Edward Leverich, Peter JLesserole, Dr. 
Nathan Shelton, .Tohn E. Tompkins, A. Van Sin- 
deren, Eliidialet Wickes and Charles AVriglit were 
appointed a committee to solicit subscriptions, and 
report at a meeting to be held the third Wednes- 
day of Soptember. 

1815, Aug. 23. — A society to suppress vice and 
intemperance was organized at Oystorbay, July 1st 
they met at the school house in Jericho, when 
Charles Jackson was appointed Cliainnan and 
Samuel Sherman, Secretary. The Committee to 
draft a constitution were : .Sel.ah S. Carll, Jarvis 
Frost, Elbert liegeman, James liegeman, A'alcu- 
tine Hicks, William Jones, Jesse Merrit, Samuel 
Sherman, Isaac ,Smith and Sol. Wooden. 

1S15, Sept. 5. — J.'n/ortiiiKitc Aechknl. — This 
morning, a small Alarkct-boat, in attempting to 
come to the city from Newtown with ten persons 
aboard, five women and five men, run athwart a 
cable of a brig lying at anchor in the etreani, up- 
set, and went down ; by which .accident, one man, 
Mr. Paul Burtis, and four women, viz : Mrs. Betsey 
Gray, Air.'. Lane, Miss Snedikor and Aliss AVadc, 
about 12 years of age, were drowned, Air. Edaell, 
the owner of the boat. Air. Collier, Airs. Kapelye, 
and two colored men, were saved, by clinging, some 
to the cable, and some to the ropes of the brig, *''! 
they were taker, off. Airs. Ilspelyc was so much 
exhausted that her recovery is doubtful. 

1815, Sqil.n. — Died, at Jamaica, aged 73 years. 



i^ 

L^ 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



101 



ci 



Colonel Joseph Eobiusoii, a patriot of tlio Revolu- 
tion aud for thirty years Surrogate of Queens 
county. 

ISlG'Feb. 26. — On Thursday morning; last, be- 
tween one and two o'clock, the house of widow 
Lawrence at Flushing, was discovered to be "On tire. 
Tiie family made their escape, but the flames when 
discovered had made such progress that a small 
portion of the fiuniture only was saved. 

ISlC^iJrrt 22.— Eleven o'clock last night a fire 
broke out in the barn of Mr. Furman iu Newtown, 
Long Island, which destroyed all his outhouses 
with their contents, a large quantity of hay, grain, 
&c., two horses, one cow and two calves were con- 
sumed. 

1816.— The Trustees ot Union Hall Academy, 
Jamaica, pui-pose to open a female academy. May 
20th, in a building that will accommodate from 
thirt^y to forty boarders. -They have engaged two 
ladies of approved talents and experience, Mrs. 
Elizabeth ISartlette and Miss Laura Barnum by 
whom young -ladies will be instructed in all the 
branches of .a poljte and well finished education. 

1816, June 11. — A fine large GREEN TURTLE 
■will be dressed on Saturday and Sunday next, at 
Tyler's Boarding House, Far Kockaway. Dinner 
on the table at two o'clock. 

1816, Jidi/ 20.— Dr. Jlitchell and Captain Pat- 
ridge ascertained by the barometer that the height 
of the Harbor Hills was three hundred aud nine- 
teen feet.* They also found the 51 ill-stone rock, 
a granite block on laud of Judge Scheuck, south of 
Manhasset, to contain two thousand four hundred 
cubic feet above the surface of the earth iu which 
it was embedded. 

1816, ^J((7. 7.— Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Cap- 
tain Carberry, of NoTi' York, aged fourteen years, 
aud two servant girls (one was Jane McPhersou.) 
were swept off by the undertow at llockaway 
bsach, while bathing in the surf. They were 
washed up fifteen minutes after but life was ex- 
tinct. 

1810, Auff. 16— Walter ar.d Gilbert Covert (fa- 
ther and sou) were put in Queens county jail for 
setting fire to the barn of Obadiah Jackson, Jeri- 
cho, and subsequently removed to Bridewell for 
fear of their breaking jail. They were tried, No- 
vember 12th. Walter was acquitted aud Gilbert 
sent to the State's Prison for ten years. 

1816, Aug. 16. — The coldest and dryest season 
ever known, corn injured by the grub or cut worm. 
Farmers had to purchase salt hay for winter fodder. 

1816, Sept 26.— The Williamsburgh turnpike 
which has been making for the last two years, is 
now finished. It curtails the distance between 
New York and Newtown one half. The route to 

*The water comnnissioners from Williamsburgh, after- 
wards made the elevation to be three hundred aud eighty 
feet. 



Rockaway formerly exceeded twenty-eight miles, 
but is now diminished to fifteen. The number of 
horses iu the team-boat has been doubled to afford 
facilities to travellers bj' the new route. 

1816, Noi\ 12.— Stephen Hicks was fined $50 
for assault on Cesar Lowe, a negro. (In the spring 
of 181;3 Cesar was beJiaving disorderly in Hicks' 
bar-room, at Success, and on refusing to leave the 
house when ordered, Hicks forciby ejected and 
kicked him, of which he died).— Court and Si(2ycr- 
visors' minutes. 

1816, Bee. 4. — James Ditmars of Jamaica killed 
a pig, eight months okl, which weighed when 
dressed three hundred and sixty-two pounds. 

1816, Bee. 18.— AVilliam Smith, of Flushing, 
killed a two j'car old hog which weighed one thou- 
sand, one hundred and twenty pounds. — Star. 

1816, Bee. 18, — A radish was produced the past 
seasjan from the garden of a gentleman in New- 
town whose length including the top was five feet, 
ten inches, length of body two feet nine inches 
circumference two feet three inches, weight twen- 
ty-one pounds. — Star. 

1817. Jan. 15.— Flour sells in New York, for $15 
per barrel, and a further advance is apprehended. 

1817. — Tbe night of February 14, was the cold- 
est one of many years. At sunrise the Mercury 
was seven degrees below zero. 

1817, Man 5.— William Gobbet landed in New 
York, aud hired Hyde Park, where he planted iu 
ridges seven acres of turnips (ruta-bagas), and gave 
a great impulse to their culture by Long Island 
farmers. 

1817, Hay 21. — Late Election, — From a state of 
high excitement the people seem to have flillen into 
a very blamable apathy. Very few votes we 
understand were given iu the towns of Long Is- 
land. In Queens county no nomination of Assem- 
blymen was made from any party ; but the old 
members (Messrs. Carman, Jones, and Kissam) 
are said to be elected. For Governor DeWitt 
Clinton received tiro hundred and eighty-three 
votes and Peter B. Porter, thirteen. — Jj. J. Star. 

1817, June 15. — Tbe store of Lowerre and 
Wines, Flushing was broken open iu the night by 
some men from New York, (who came np in a 
coach) and rubbed of $1,000 worth of goods, a part 
of which was found on the -wharf and part carried 
off in a yawl which is now missing. 

1817, Ji(7>c 18. — Eatables have been high but 
the prospects now are that the crops will be abun- 
dant. — Star. 

1817, June 27.— The barn of George Vander- 
verg, Flushing, was consumed hj' lightning during 
the thunder storm of Saturday eveuiug. 

1817, July 15.— The store of John W. Messen- 
ger, one mile east of Jamaica, was broken open 
aud robbed on the night of July 7th. The whole 



102 



Q r E E N S CO V X T Y 



of tlic goods will lie given as a rewaail for the dis- 
covery of the villains.— 57((r. 

IS 17. A)if/. 0. — Sally Edsall, Nf«town, sncd 
Thomas aud Margaret T'iviiio for slaudor. The 
trial lasted three daj's nnd forty witiiesses were 
examined. The jury i-fiulri-fMl a vi-vlu-t n|'.'''io.- 
L. I. Star. 

1S17, Aliff. IS. — Mi: opragg, ul Hemp.-tcail hav- 
ing hid guu on fnll cock whde snipe shooting, lost 
liis tlinnib and three fingers by a discharge of the 
ramrod. The hand was amjiutatcd above the 
wrist. 

1817, Aiiff. 21. — James Davis, a mason, James 
Muttcc aud Piatt Sammis were committed to jiil 
for n?ing violcucc under aggr.avating circumstaiicos 
to Maria Dodge, whonx they left on the Flats in 
Ilemjjstead Haibor, to be drowned by the rising 
tide, but her cries brought timely succor. Davis 
broke jail December 4, but was ri'takcn Juno 10, 
ISIS. The others also escaped June 20 1818.— 
SiqK'rvisors' mimitcs. 

1S17, Atir/. 24.— Died at Tyler's, at Kockaway, 
ilr. llolman, play actor, late of London. 

1817. — At a meeting of a number of gentlemen 
farmers and agriculturists of Queens county, at the 
Court House, November lltli, for the purpose of 
taking into consideration the propriety of forming 
an A;/iicii1tiiral Socic/i/, in order to improve the 
ni.?thod of farming as well as to improve the stock 

I aud rural economy of said county in general, Lewis 
S. Hewlett was called to the chair aud John I. 

I Cromwell was appointed Secretary. 

After a few prefatory remarks on the impor- 
tance to our country of the subjt?ct, it wa.'j resolved 
that the formation of an agriculfnral society is 
highly necessary and that a general meeting of the 

' fanners and agrlenlturists of Queens county, be 

: held at the Court House, December 8th, at 10 A. 5r. ; 

I and that Lewis S. Hewlett, Carret Laton, M.ijnv 
■\ViIliatn Jones, John I. Cromwell, Esfj., Ix'wis 
Hewlett and Henry O. Seaman form a coiumittee 
of arrangements ; and that the objects of tliis meet- 
ing may become generally known that these pro- 
ceedings be published in the newspapers and hand- 
lAU.—L. I. Star. 

1817, Nov. 12. — Dr. Keener who resided a mile 
west of Jamaica was buried in the cemetery of 
Grace church. 

1818, March 7. —Daniel Downing, a young man 
who could not speak, was driving his fatiirr'.s team 
down a hill cast side of ^Manhasset, when the load 
slid on the horses which started and he was thrown 
out and killed. 

1S18, March \ G. — A meeting was held at Allen's 
inn, Manhasset, to consider the subject of building 
an Academy. Christ churcii academywas opened, 
October following.* 



1818, April. — Daniel Kissaui, Steidien Carman, 
and John A. King were elected to the Assembly 
over the Tammany candidates. 

1818, Mivj 22. — James Morrel, of Xewtown, was 
drowned while in his berth, on board a small ma- 
nure schooner which sunk at Fly market wharf, 
New York, in conscqucuco of her prow catching 
on the ferry stairs. 

ISIB, Aug. 10. — During the thunder storm of 
Thursday afternoon, the barn of Danii'l Everett, 
near .Jamaica, was struck and entirely consumed, 
loss SGOO or .S700. 

\S\.Q, Sept. — Governor (_'linton nnd suite, consist- I ^ 
ing of Dr. S. L. Jlitchell, Dr. Townscnd, Gurdon Ay 
S. Mumford and Judj^e J^llingham Lawrence at- 
tended the lleformod L>ulch church, Manhasset, on 
Sund.ay, and dined at Judge JlitchdU's. The 
Governor held his levee at Allen's inn. — JEd. 

1818, Oc/. 28. —^lajor Thorne of Oysterbay was 
tlirown from his gig by two rtmaway horses com- 
ing in contact and killed. 

\Sl^, April!. — Tothe EJilor Qf the Loiiff Idmul 
Star. — I presume it is not generally known that a 
few men h::ve undertaken to manage for the people 
and kindly dictate for whom they shall vote. — 
They have lately sent delegates to Tammany Hal! 
to nominate Senators. In {Queens county, the bu- 
siness was done by a county meeting of less than 
thirty persons, called by private letters sent to the 
]Martling* men of the county only. This was 
culled the sense of. the county of Queens ! I 

1819, iI/«^ 'S.'— Vote of Queens county, far As 
sembly : 

Feihral. Tummany. 



Jolin A. Kin<^, - - 
William .Joiies, - 
Tluiai.is TreJwiiU, 



75-2 
715 



Samuel .*<lierDian, - - 42.') 
Rte]ilieu Ciriiixii, - - 210 
AVilliam Jlott, - - ■ iSi 



*1H(I2, Dec. 7. — fleorpo find Sar.ili Ond-rJonk sell over 
two acres iif piouiul, at tlio lleaJ of Cow Xock, for the site 
of Christ church. 



1819. — Jlrs. and Jliss Dawson's boarding school, 
Jamaica, will reopen May 10th, Music, French, 
Italian and English languages regularly taught. 

1819, .Ifrt^ 12.— 7?«r'7?«;-y.— Thellouse of :Mr. 
Isaac Lcfferts near .Jamaica, Long Island, was bro- 
ken open on the night of the 8lh inst., and robbed 
of a small chest, containing fifteen hundred dollars 
in I'.ink bills, three hundred and fifty dollars in 
silver, twenty eagles, a gold watch, chain, key and 
seals, and a number of valuable 2'-ipP''*' Two 
hundred dollars reward is olfered for the defection 
of the robber and the recovery of the property. 

1819'. — The simimor term of Nassau Academy, 
Hempstead, under the care of the Rev. Timothy 
Clowes, A. M., with an able assistant, will com- 
mence ilay 2jtli. Hoard (iiul tuition .§83 for twen- 
ty-three weeks. French, "Washing and bedding a 
separate charge. 

The Female Academy under the care of Mrs. C. 
A. Taylor will open the same day. 

*.So c.iUed from meeting iu Martling's long room, Tam- 
many Hall. — Ed. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



103 



1819, June 23. — Some damage was doue by the 
hail storm in Queens county, on Saturday last, — 
At J.-imaica the glass windows were broken. At 
Newtown, Flushing, Hempstead and elsewhere, 
the grass and grain were beat down, and Indian 
corn almost destroyed. 

1819, Juli) 28. — An aged woman at Hempstead, 
known as " Aunt Ibbey" Carman, while walking on 
the swamp road leading to Joseph Dorlon's Mill, 
was struck and killed by the pole of a runaway 
wagon. — Star. 

1819, Sept. 15. — The dysentery prevails in sev- 
eral parts of Long L-^land. In Hempstead and the 
east part of Hnntington many are sick and num- 
bers of deaths have occurred. — L. I. Star. 

1819. — The Queens County Society for the pro- 
motion of x\griculture and Domestic manufactures, 
was organized at a public meeting of a number of 
the freeholders and inhabitants, at the Court Hou.?e, 
on the 21st day of June. The officers were Rufus 
King. President ; Effingham Lawrence, Singleton 
Mitchell " and "William. Jones, Vice-Presidents ; 
Rev. David S. Bognrt, Corresponding Secretary; 
Thomas Philips, Recording Secretary ; Daniel 
Kissam, Treasurer. 

3IANAGEES. 

Lewis Hewlett, Townsend Cock, John B. Coles, 
Jr., Nelson Lloyd, of O^'sterbay ; John I. Schenck, 
Benjamin Tred well, Benjamin I'latt, Joseph Dodge, 
Jr., of Nortli Hempstead ; Abraham Cock, Thom- 
as Powell, Richard Cornell, James Lawi'ence, of 
Flushing ; Colonel Edward Leverich, Colonel 
George Gibbs, Timothy Roach, Rev. E. M. John- 
son, of Newtown ; Nicholas Wyckoff, Timothy 
Nostrand, John A. King, Lawrence Roe, of Jamai- 
ca ; Rev. Seth Hart, Jacob S.Jackson, Thomas 
Tredwell, Oliver Hewlett, of Hempstead. 

The managers met July 26th, and agreed on a 
list of ])remiums to be ofl'ered at the first exhibition 
at the Oovirt House, on the first Tuesday of No- 
vember. 

The premiums were awarded to the following 
persons : 

John Ekler, Jamaica, Indian Corn. - - . $20 
Judge Lawrence, Flushing, acre of Potatoes, - - 10 
do do. half acre Kuta Bagas, 10 

Thomas Jenkins, Oj'sferbay, Woolen Cloth, - . ]0 
do. do. Flannel, - - - 10 

Lewis Hewlett, Oysterbay, Linen Diaper, - - - 5 
Stephen .Sell, N. Hempstead, Lineu for Shirts or Sheets, 5 
Colonel Gibbs, Newtou'u, Bull, - - . 
Lewis Hewlett, Hempstead, Working Oxen, 
Lawrence lloe, Jamaica, Cow, ... 
Benjamin Penny, Flushing, Cow. 
Lewis Hewlett, Oysterbay, Bullock, 
Colonel tiibbs. Merino Ram, .... 
Judge Lawrence, Merino Fwe. 
Wynaiit Van Zandt, Flushing, Ram, not merino, 
James Lout, Newtown, Ewe, not merino. 

Colonel Gibbs, Boar, 

Lewis Hewlett, Oysterbay, Sow, ... 
Thomas. Jones, Oysterbay, fom- year Gelding, 



20 
10 
20 
10 
1.5 
10 
5 
10 



No miported Horse, Bull or Cow, were exhibited. 



- ij 
.5 

- 15 

200 



1819, Aug. 11. — The fields on Long Island, are 
parched up by the long drought. 

1820, Jan. 12. — Silas Roe, of Jamaica, has 
raised and fatted a hog twenty-one months old, 
which when killed on the 4th inst., weighed seven 
hundred and twenty-two pounds. — Star. 

1820, Feb. 14. — At a numerous and respectable 
meeting at the Court House, of the electors of 
Queens county, friendly to the state administration, 
Jacobus Monfort, Chairman and Jonathan How- 
ard, Secretary, DeWitt Clinton was nominated 
for Governor, and a committee of four from each 
town appointed to forward the objects of the meet- 
iusr, viz : 



JAMAICA. 



James Denton, Esq. 
Evert Van Wickleu, 



Nicholas TVyckoff, 
Charles Ilcndrickson. 



FLUSHING. 
Effingham Lawrence, I Abraham Lowerre, 
Captain John Strong, | William Roe. 

OYSTERBAY. 
Benjamin Ellison, Esq., I Isaac Smith, Esq., 
John I. Cromwell Esq., j Silas T. Vandewater. 
NORTH HEMPSTEAD. 



Singleton Mitchell, Esq., 
Garret Laton, Esq., 



Henry S. Hicks, 
Joseph Dodge, Jr. 
HEMPSTEAD. 

John Clowes, 
Henry Covert. 
NEWTOWN. 

Martin Way, 
John I. Rapelye. 

The woolen factory {of John 
Bird at the Alley) near Flushing, was burnt on 
Thursday night, with all its machinery and stack. 
The loss is about 810,000. It is supposed the fire 
originated from the stove pipe. — L. I. Star. 

1820, ^j)ri7.— Vote of Queens county, for Gov- 
ernor and Assembly : 



Samuel Nicolls, 
Elias Hicks, 



William Palmer, 
Isaac Morrell, 

1820. Feb. 23.- 



GOVERXOR. 



ASSEMBLY. 
CUntonian. Ojrposition. 



H O ^ H I 

Q 3 W ^ ? > 

I I i' g I 3 

P S g g - 3 

Hempstead, - 277 167 34.5 364 420 332 

N. Hempstead, 54 95 55 56 41 109 

Oysterbay - 160 96 246 249 239 98 

Flushing, - 57 53 53 57 43 106 

Newtown, . 69 130 94 94 94 144 



Jamaica, 



5S 112 43 44 42 183 



td 



B 
315 
133 

97 
123 
145 
189 



341 
124 
101 
102 
94 
180 



675 653 835 866 878 972 1001 942 

1820, March 7. — At a meeting of Republican 
delegates from the several towns of Queens countj% 
at the Court House, Captain John Hazard, Chafr- 
man, and James Lent, Secretary, D'auiel D. Tomp. 
kins was nominated for Governor ; and it was re- 



25 > 



104 



QUEENS COUNTY 



solved that Elbert Hegcmaii, Joseph Pettit, John 
W. Seaman, and Lawrence Roe, be delcjrates to 
the senatorial convention at Tammany ]Iall, on 
29tli inst.; and that James Ilrgiman, of Oyster- 
bay, J. Allen, of North llcni|)stcad, Nathaniel 
Seaman of Hempstead, John W. Seaman of Eliish- 
iug, Silas Hoc, of Jamaica, and James I^ent, of 
Newtown, be a committee to draft resolutions and 
an address to the electors of this countv. — L. I. 
Star. 

1820, Jiili/ 1.— The New York County Agricul- 
tural Society awarded Mrs. Cornelius 11. liemscn, 
of Newtown, for the best butter in market, a silver 
cream pitcher. The other exhibitors (wliosc but 
tor was excellent) were Teter Luy."ter, Daniel 
Jloorc, Henry Barclay and 5Irs. 31oore, of New- 
town ; David Rhodes, of Jamaica, and John 
Hoogland of Flushing. 

1S20, Jul// 12. — The corner stone of the new 
Academy at Jamaica, was laid on AVedncsday. — 
There was a procession by the Trustees, teachers, 
and scholars of Union Hall from llie ])rcsent acad- 
emy to the .«pot chosen for the new edifice, wlicre 
the corner stone was laid in presence of numerous 
spectators, after which an excellent prayer by the 
Rev. Jacob Schoonmaker, President of the Trus- 
tees. The new edifice will afl'ord spacious rooms 
for the Principal and his live assistants, and for 
the library and philosophical ajiparatus. 

1820, Oct. 11.— Isaac Hewlett's Laurel Grove 
"Woolen factory, head of Cold S2)riug, is now in 
operation. — Star. 

1820, Nov. 2. — The Queens County Cattle Show 
and Pair took place at the Court llouee. There 
were more people assembled than was CAer before 
witnessed iu the county on any occasion. A pre- 
mium was awarded the owner of the celebrated 
horse, Duroc, and to lion. Riifus King for the best 
uiilch cow. We have not been favored with any 
other particulars.' — Star. 

1S20, Xov. 7. — The New York County Agri- 
cultural Society awarded the following premiiuus 
to residents of Queens county : 

Gen. Xallinniel C'ulcs, Dosoris, best lirooJ Slarc, - $'M (10 
Towuscuil IVick, t)ystei'bay, Horse Duroc, - - i!(l 00 
Gcufral Xatlianiel Coles, Mare, - - - - JU 00 
Lewis llewk'tt. sccoud best Fat Oxen, - - - 40 Wl 
James hent^ two best Hacks, - . . . ]", (id 
Edward I.everkh, Xew tow u, best littfr of I'ijrs, - 12 00 
Aadrew Cock, riusliinp, Coru [ilaiitiii}; Slaehiiie. - 7 CO 
Mr. A. L. Schuyler of Newtown exhibited liue liogs. 

1820, Kov. 11. — Ou Saturday night there was a 
snow storm — the snow fell twelve inches deep. — 
On Monday there was sleighing. The farmers 
had not all yet gathered their potatoes, apples and 
corn. 

'Joseph Omlcrdonk received the ]ireiiiiuin for the best 
rut.l bapas. (ioveruor Kiu^, one of the Judjjes, tised to say, 
it was the lirst time he had seen tuniips sowu iu ridges, 
and that it was the lincst crop he ever saw, either before or 
Binee. — Ld. 



1821. — The Loii(/ Island Farmer was com- 
menced by Henry C. Sleight, Thursday, January 
4th. 

1821. — An auxiliary to the United Poreign 
Missionary Society, was'organized in the Reformed 
Dutch church, Jamaica, on the evening of Janu- 
ary 1st. Its object is to civilize and evangelize 
our "Western Indians. One hundred and fifty mem- 
bers have been obtained. Tlie officers are Rev. 
Jacob Schoonmaker, President; Rev. Hein-y R. 
AVeed, Eliphalet AVickes, John Reiimt, A'ichael 
Skidmore, "S'lce Presidents; GcLcral \. AV. AVickes, 
Treasurer ; Dr. Nathan Shelton, Secretary. The 
managers are Abraham liurtis, Abraham IKndrick- 
son, Daniel Ludluin, Estp, James Hendrickson, 
John Itider, AA'aite S.Everett, Johauis Lott, Amos 
Denton, Jr. 

A similar society was also formed in Newtown. 
— Farmer. 

1821, Jan. 10. — John Tan Nosfrand and John 
Sutphin run one or two stages to Brooklyn from 
Hewlett Creed's Inn, Jamaica, daily at 8 o'clock. 

1821, March 7.— John and David Bedell start 
a Post coach, every morning, from Smith Hicks' 
Hotel, Jamaica, to Brooklyn. Pare fifty cents. 

1821, Ajnil 14. — Singleton ^litchell, IMandome, 
offers for sale two thousand inoculated peach trees 
of three seasons' growth. 

1821, AjJril 17.— The Rev. Dr. Bktsoe, has 
been appointed Principal of tlie Academy at Oys- 
terbay, and it is intended by tiie trustees to appro- 
priate a part of Ediuund Hall to the purposes of 
an E])iscopal church, in which Divine service will 
be performed regularly by Dr. Bletsoe. — Star. 

] S'21, A}>riL — A'ote of Queens county for As- 
sembly. 

Independent liepnbliciin 
or liepublicnn.* or liufUuil.'l 





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y 




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c - 




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~ 


S 






















= « 


o? 


IS 

5 


■A 


Ovsterl)av, 


- 397 


;«)o 


377 


179 


178 


173 


llenipstoaO, 


i'iS 


4iMi 


503 


3.^0 


3-J7 


343 


N. liempstead, 


- b~ 


90 


74 


9G 


Hi 


101 


Jamaica, - 


1-23 


146 


114 


las 


i;« 


123 


l-'lushiiifj, 


«) 


93 


8o 


91 


97 


92 


XewtowD, - 


- 134 


140 


133 


174 


183 


1S3 



Total, 



- 1318 1355 126C 1018 1029 1015 



1821. — St. George's church, Plnshing, was con- 
secrated 3Iay 25th, by Bishop Hubart. — Post. 

1821, June 7.— On Thursday evening last, be- 
tween eight and nine o'clock, the large new barn 



* They were Clintouinns and ■' opposed to tlie dominant 
]iarty in the prosput Lepislatiire." Li'wis S. Hewlett was 
Clminiiiin and KbciKzer .Secly, Secretary, of the lucotiiip 
that uoiiiinated thciii. — Ed. 

tThey were " ojiposed to the Executive of this state." — 
iV. 



IX OLDEN TIMES, 



105 



and hovel of Valeiitiuc Hicks, Jericlio, was struck 
with linbtuiiig and cousnuied with a quantity of 
corn, .-Theavy shower of rain prevented injury to 
other buildings, though it was surrounded by seve- 
ral dwelling houses and barns. — L. I. Farmer. 

1821, June 7. — At the late meeting of the Agri- 
cultural Society, held ; t the Court House, after the 
business for which they had convened was finished 
they thought it advisable to recommcjid without 
the bias of part}', Eufus King, Elbert H. Jones 
and Joseph Dodge, Jr., as suitable persons to rep- 
resent the county in the convention. — L. I. Far- 
mer. 

1S21. — At a Rcpuldican meeting, June 8th, of 
committees from the diiferent towns of Queens coun- 
t}', at the Court House, agreeably to public notice, 
Benjamin Allen, Chairman and Adam L. Allen, 
Secretary, llufus King, of Jamaica, ticorge Town- 
send, of Oysterbay and Xatlianiel Seaman, of 
Hempstead, were nominated as candidates for the 
ensuing convention.* 

1821, June. — The Xew York County Agricul- 
tural Society awarded Jlrs. Stewart, of Jamaica, 
the first premium for eighteen pounds of butter, a 
silver cream pitcher, and a discretionary premium 
to Mrs. Moore, of Newtown. 

1821, June. — Vote of Queens county for Dele- 
gates to the Convention to revise the Constitution 
of this State : 



;^ o 



k-. ^ 



K 

o 



Oysterbay, - 
N. Hem]istead, 
Hempstead, 
Jamaica, 
Flushing;, - 
Newtown, 



248 213 ]68 34 32 48 

- 108 72 115 135 126 33 
307 248 33 83 298 2 

- 157 90 91 67 63 

203 303 W8 106 106 

- no 83 83 23 23 

1138 gJ4 597 448 648 83 

1821, Jidtj 11.— William Roe, Umbrella and 
Parasol manufacturer, in Jamaica, adjoining Joseph 
Eoc's tavern.. — L. 1. Farmer. 

1821, Aug. 9. — Mr. Jesse Wright, of Jamaica, 
wliile bathing at the three mile mill was drowned 
on Saturdaj"- evening last. — L. I. Farmer. 

1S21, Aug. 9.^-The weather is now cool, after 
excessive heat for near a fortnight past. The 
! Thermometer ranged from eighty to ninety-two 
degrees, in the shade. Vegetation is drooping 
for lack of rain. — L. I. Farmer. 

1821, Aug. 9.— On Sunday afternoon, while the 

families of Abraham Burtis and his father, Hen- 

j drick, of Foster's Meadow, were attending Divine 

service, a mile and a half from home, the house of 



*Tlie Bucktails not satisfied with the excellent, iudepen- 
deut nomination h.nve taken one of the c.-jndidates, Kufus 
King and nominated with him, GeorgcTowuseud and Xa- 
thaniel Seaman. — Columbian. 



Abraham was discovered to be on fire and the 
flames communicated to the barn and Mit-houscs 
of Heudrick. The furniture Was mostly saved, 
but the grain and hay were lost. Only a servant 
girl was in the house who cannot account for the 
fire. Mr. Abraham Burtis is much involved and 
will thankfully accept any donations. — L. I. Far- 
mer. 

1821, Sept. 3. — During the great gale the baru 
of David Lamberson, at Jamaica, was blown down, 
in the night, and his black man, George, killed by 
the fall. 

1821, Oc^— The Xew York County Agricultu- 
ral Society awarded premiums to residents of 
Queens county as follows : 
John Tredwell, Hempstead, pair of Oxen, - - $10 

John L. Lloyd, a colt Duroe, _10 

John H. ami AV. K- Jones, 2d best, Cassimcre, - - 10 

do best pair AVoolen Blankets, 10 

James Lent, six best English Wethers, - - - 10 

EtHngham Lawrence, six best Merino Ewes, - - 10 

1821. — The annual exhibition of the Queens 
County Agricultural Society, took jjlace, at the 
Court House, AVednesday, November 7th, when 
premiums were awarded to the following persons : 



Effingham Lawrence, acre of Potatoes, 

Singleton Mitchell, half acre Euta B.ngas, - 

James Lent, do. do. do. 

Cornelius S. Bogart, two acres Wheat, 

Singleton Mitchell, do. do. 

Singleton Mitchell, two acres Eye, ... 

Daniel Kissam, do. ... 

Daniel Kissam, «cre of Flax, . . - . 

.Singleton Mitchell, do. . - . - 

.Singleton Mitchell, two acres Barley, - . - 

Edward Leverich, do. do. - 

Singleton Mitchell, do. Spring Wheat, - 

Henry Covert, best Agricultural JIachiuos, ^■iz : Gar- 
den Plough, machines for planting beans and sow- 
ing tiu'nip seed, - - - - 

I'riah Piatt, Carpet. - - - - 

Daniel Youngs, Linen Diaper, ... - 

Rulef Schcuck, Linen Shirting, .... 

Garret Laton, Woolen Mittens, ... 

LTriah Piatt, do. .... 

Peter Luyster, Woolen Stockings, 

do do. .... 

Friah Piatt, do. .... 

Peter Luyster, Linen jStoekings, - - - . 

Peter Luyster, Cotton Stockings, ... 

Garret Laton most cloth made in one family, viz : 
Woolen, 202 yards : Linen, 363 yards, 

J. X. Lloj-d, Brood Mare, 

do. do. ... 

Tliomas Mott, Stud Horse, 

Thomas Jones. do. 

Garret Laton. Geldins, 

T. Hewlett, Jr., Yearling Colt, .... 

John Trodwell, .Sow, 

Lawrence Roe. Sow, ...... 

Roe Haviland, Buar, 

Jolm I'itus, two Slioats, ------ 

JoliG I. Schenck, do. .-...- 

Johnlredwell.Fal Bullock, 

Hewlett Townseiid, do., - - - . - 

Jcihn Titus, Working Cattle, 

Benjamin Piatt, do . . . - 

Singleton Mitchell. Milch Cow, . - . . 

Benjamin Tredwell, do., - - . . . 

John Titus, Bull, • 

Singleton Mitchell, do.. 

James Lent, English Buck, ... - - 



$8 00 

8 00 

5 00 

J5 00 

30 00 

10 00 

5 00 

30 00 

5 00 

10 00 

5 00 

5 00 



10 00 

10 00 

8 00 

8 00 

1 00 
75 

2 10 
1 ."0 

1 00 

2 UO 
2 (>0 

30 00 
35 00 

8 00 
20 00 
30 00 
30 00 
10 00 

8 00 

5 00 
8 00 

6 00 
5 00 

10 00 
5 00 

10 00 
5 00 

10 00 
5 00 

10 00 
60 
S 00 



I 106 



QUEEXS COUNTY 



JaiiK-s Lent, Kiiirliah Kwi', - • 5 00 

James Scoii, iKiino liuck, - - • s 00 

Singleton .M.l.liell, do. 00 

EHii)j;h:iiii Lawrence, Four Merino Ewes, - 8 00 

£(lmuiiil Farrington, do. 5 00 

Noah ilmoa. Call', ..... 5 00 

Isaac K. Cuiiklin, two years growth of Locust from the 

peed, 5 00 

Hufus Weed, Fat Pig under seven moirthg, . 3 00 

The premiums when ov«r $5, consistod of a pieco of sil- 
ver plato, such as a pitcher or cup. — Eit. 

1S21, Kov. 21. — Adrian Van Sindcren, Abra- 
liam Keniscn, John Ebbit?, Aaron Furraaii, and 
James Jf. llalscy, intend applying to tlic Lcgisla- 
tiu'c for the incorjioration of " the Newtown Female 
Academy." ~L. I. Farmer. 

1S21, Nov. 29. — A young Rhode I.sland green- 
ing tree of James Scott, Flushing, was stripped of 
ita leaves in the September gale, but afierw-irds 
put forth new foliage and has produced apples of 
the second growth about the size of walnuts. — N. 
Y. Journal. 

1821, Dec. 27.— Mr. Seymour, Oyatcrbay, had 
his barn|, tfpau of horses, hay and grain, burnt Ijy 
Lis negro boy. 

1822, Feb. 2%.— Great Flood— The mail carrier 
informs us that the damage done by the recent 
heavy rains and swollen streams ou Long Island 
has been very great. On the north side of the 
island all the mill-dams arc carried away except 
one at Oystcrbay- owned by W. Townsend. This 
destruction includes thvpc dams at Smitlitown. — 
The dam of Cicneral Jackson, at Oysterbay South, 
is carried away. The roads are greatly injm-cd, 
and some small bridges are carried away. 

1822, March. — Now York Provision Market, 
corrected by E. Frost, weekly, for the the Lon(/ 
Island Farmer : 

Beef, three to ten cents per pound ; by the lum- 
dred weight St to -SS ; Pork, iive to six cents per 
pound ; by hundred weight SI to SG ; Veal, four to 
nine cents; Mutton, four to six cents; Butter, 
(fresh) twenty to twenty-five cents, (in firkins) 
twelve and half to sixteen cents ; Potatoes, thirty- 
seven to forty-four cents per bushel ; Turnips, twen- 
ty-five to thirty-seven cents ; Beets, Carrots, Pars 
nips, about fifty cents per bushel ; Cabbages, S3 to 
^1 per hundred, three to six cents per head ; Geese, 
thirty-seven to fifty cents each ; Turkeys, sevcnty- 
fivecents to $1 ; Fowls, per pair, fifty cents to Si ; 
Apples, per.barrel, Sl,75 to 82,50 ; Eggs, per dozen, 
twelve cents. . 

1822, 3Iarch 1-3. — The district school house at 
Ilcmpste.ad was broke open at night and robbed of 
about sixty volumes of school books. 

1822, A2vil. — Silas Roe's Bakery and flour store, 
Jamaica, llis bake-wagon goes to Flushing and 
Wliitcstonc, Success, CJreat Neck, Cow Neck, 
Hempstead harbor, and returns through Foster's 
Meadow by the head of Springfield. June 1st, 



the wagon will run to Far Rockaway and return 
through Springfield. 

1822, Ajiril 24. — James Elmes and ATilliara 
Fricke, coach makers, in the shop late of Joseph 
Messenger, ou the JIaiu street, Jamaica, next the 
hay -scales, by the Dutch Church. 

1822, 31(11/. — John 'Welling, tailor, Jamaica, 
in the house lately occupied by Isaac Skirm, shoe- 
maker, oj)posite Mrs. Bartlctte'a Female Academy. 

1822, Ma;/ 27. — The Jamaica Auxiliary Society, 
for meliorating the condition of the Jews, wa.i 
formed. The audience were addressed by a cou- 
vcrted Jew, Rev. Jlr. Frey, and Mr. Jadowuisky. 
S1G4 were subscribed. 

1822, May 9. — 'We are credibly informed that a 
short time since in excavating a canal at Jerusa- 
lem South for conveying water from a pond to a 
fiouring mill, a number of Indian skeltons was dis- 
interred, and at the head of each was found a bottle 
of rum, a kettle, tomahawk, &:c. The rum was 
of good flavor and supposed to bo over a ccutmy 
old. — L. I. Farmer. 

1822, May 31.— Elizabeth iJeinott sued Samuel 
L. Smith for breach of promise of inaiTi.Tge, after 
nine years courtship, and got a verdict of S2,000. 

1822, June 8. — At the last Court of Oyer and 
Terminer, Thomas Spears, a negro boy, twelve 
years old, was sent to the states prison for three 
years, for burning the barn of AVilliam W. Town- 
send. — Farmer. 

1822, Jutie 8. — Eleven pounds of well washed 
wool was sheared, a few daj's since, from James 
Scott's merino buck, at Jamaica. — Farmer. 

1822, June 20. — "Wheat and Rye will be short 
owing to the variable weather last winter ; the 
slight covering of snow and the present uncommon 
drought. Oats and Flax w'ill bo indifferent with- 
out timely rain. Ilay is very light. 

1822. — The Long Island Forum will be opened 
at !Mr. Eldert's hotel, Jamaica, June 27tli. The 
Rev. D. S. Bogart will preside. Tickets twenty- 
five cents. The proceeds will be devoted to chari- 
table purposes. — L. I. Farmer. 

1822. — June 29th, will be sold at auction at the 
house lately occupied by the Rev. Henry R. 
Weed, Jamaica, a fpiantity of household fm-nitiwc, 
horse, gig, cow, a few Lives of bees, &c. 

1S22. — The Long Island Forum will celebrate 
the 4th of July. The procession will form at 
Eldert's Hotel and proceed to the ilelhodist 
church, where the Declaration will be read by 
Lewis Bixby and an Oration delivorod by Oliver 
A. Shaw, with music interspersed. Dinner at Mr. 
Eldert's. — L. I. Farmer. 

1S22. — A young man. Frost Carpenter, was 
killed and several others wounded, on the evening 
of July 4th, by the bursting of a caimon at Mus- 
fpiito Cove. It is said that in the uight they got 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



107 



possession of tbe cannon, charged it heavily and 
forced a stone into its month and then fired it. — L. 
I. Farmer. 

1822. — GrafC Church. — The neat and elegant 
church in Jamaica, just finished, was consecrated, 
Jul}' 1.5th, by Bishop Hobart. The house was 
crowded to overflowing. The text was " Take 
heed how ye hear." — larmcr. 

1821, March 8. — Subscriptions for rebuilding 
Grace Church. — Farmer. 



Cornelius I. Bog.irt, 
Mary C'udwise, 
L. E. A. Eigeubrodt, ■ 
Nancy Gracie, - 
Mrs. Harvey, 
Mrs. Hyler," - 
Riifus King, 
■John A. King, - 
B. T. Kissaui, 
Timothy NostranJ, - 
Nathaniel Prime, - 
Prime. Ward & Sands 
Abiathar Rhodes, 



- $150, .Silas Roe, - 
]50 Joseph Roe, - 

- 300iGilbert Roe, 
.'SOOlBeujamin Rowland, 

20!John Skidmore, 
aOjGilbert H. .'jayres,* 

- 500 Joseph Thatford, 
200 Anne Vandorvoart, 

- Klu|jolin Van Nostraud, - 
300|Adrian Van Sinderen, 

50|Samuel Ward, Sr., 
) 00 Hannah Wickham, 
5.5 1 



40 
35 
50 
50 
25 
10 
25 
25 
20 
50 
25 



Mrs. Hicks 
Mrs, Jackson, 
John T. Jones, 
Benjamin Kisaam 

1822, Aug. 1.- 



15e.«ides the above, the following were powhold- 
ers from July 3rd, 1822, to 1825 : 

Mrs. Brewer, Henry Kneelaud, John Thatford, 

John B. Codvvise, Mr, Lyde, John Titus, 

Lawrence Denton, Charles McNeil, Mrs. Tapp, 

Cornelius Dnryea, William JIcKay, Thos. &."Townscnd, 

Miss Dawson, Andrew Napier, Mrs. Troup, 

Mrs. Dyson, Fred'k. Polhemus, Jeremiah Valentine. 

Sirs. Forbes, William Puntine, Jas. A'aleutine, Sr. 

Samuel Greenoak, John B. Roe, and Jr., 

Smith Hicks, Lawrence Roe, Samuel Ward, Jr., 

John Hoogland, Ida Rowland. Nancy Welliug, 

James Smith, Samuel Welliug, 

Jeremiah Simonson.John Welling. 

Joseph Sealy. 

Joha Sprouls, 

The house of John Van Nos- 
trand, Foster's Meadow, was struck and consider- 
ably injured by lightning on Sunday evening last. 
None of the inmates were injured. — L. I. Farmer. 

1822, Oct. — TJie Union Benevolent Society of 
Jamaica, has several articles of ladies' fancy work 
for sale .it D. & 0. Lamberson's store, tlie proceeds 
of which will be devoted to Missions. — L. I. 
Farmer. 

1822, Oct. —Jonathan Howard, of Newtown, 
had a summer pippin which was fifteen inches 
round and weighed one pound three ounces. 

18-22, Oct. 24. — The Queens County Fair was 
numerously attended. There were many ladies 
though the d.ay was cold, specimens of cotton were 
exhibited by Colonel Leverich, of Newtown, and 
Dr. M. M. Rogers, of Jericho. Tunis D. Covert, 
of Jamaica South, raised sixty hills of cotton, and 
Danic;! C. Coles, of Oysforbay, raised, the last year, 
cotton sufficient to make twenty yards of muslin. 
The Address was delivered by the Vice-President, 
Effingham Lawrence, and was printed in the Long 
Island Farmer of December .3th. This was the 

•The Rev. Gilbert H. Sayres, S. T. D., was Rector of 
the church I'rom May 1st, IBl'O, to May 1st, 1830; when he 
was succeeded by the Rev. William Lupton Johnson, D.D. 



6 00 

10 00 

6 00 

16 00 



00 



- 12 00 



6 00 



00 



last meeting of the Society, owing to the apathy 
of the farmers and falling ofi' of subscriptions. Pre- 
miums were distributed to the following persons : 

Joseph Dodge, Jr., best two acres of Wheat, - $12 00 
John T. Lawrence. Newtown, second best, - - ' 
John A. Kiug, .laniaica, best two acres of Rye, - 
Singleton Mitchell, North Hempstead, second best, 
Edward Leverich, Newtown, best two acres Spring 

Barley ; and best acre of Ela.x, each $8, 
John I. Schcnck, Nortli Hempstead, best half acre 

of Ruta Bagas, (475 bushels per acre at fifty cents 

per. bushel). ---.-.. 
William Smith, North Hempstead, best two acres 

of Indian Corn (105 bushels per acre), 
James T. Talman, Flushing, second best two acres 

of Indian Corn, (101 J bushels per acre), 
Singleton Mitchell, best acre of Potatoes, Ividneys, 

(350 bushels per acre), - - - - - 
Garret Layton, North Hempstead, most cloth made 

in the family, (445 yards^, .... 
Daniel Youngs, Oystcrbay, best Woolen Cloth, - 
Richard Cornell, Flushing, second best do. 
William Allen, N. Hempstead, best Linen Shirting, 
Miss Springsteen, Newtown, best and second best 

pair of Woolen Stockings, . . - . 
Daniel Youngs, best pair of Woolen Mittens, 
Miss Pcttit. Hempstead, two pieces of Linen Cloth, 
George Tapji^n, Oysterbay, best Stud Horse, 
Samuel Willis, North Hempstead, best yearling Colt, 
Butler Coles, Oysterbay, best Brood Mare, - 
Benjamin Piatt, North Hempstead, best pair of 

Working Oxen, 

Daniel Youngs, best Bull, - - - . - 
Jackson Lawrence. Flushing, best Bullock, 
Benjamin Tredwcll, N. Hempstead, best Calf, 
Smith Hicks, Jamaica, best Milch Cow, 
Singletou Mitchell, best Merino Buck, - . . 
Effing'in. Lawrence, Flushing, best f»ur Merino Ewes, 
James Lent. .Ne^vtown, best Buck, not merino, $8 ; 

best four Ewes, not merino, |,8, . . . - 
Roe Havil.aud, N. Hempstead, best Boar, - 
John I. Schenck. best .Sow. - - . . - 
John Holland, Jamaica, host two Shoats, - 

JO.SEPH Dodge, Jr., Secretary. 

1822, Nov. — Vote of Queens County under the 
new Constitution. 



10 00 


10 00 


6 00 


8 00 


3 50 


1 00 


2 00 


15 00 


10 00 


12 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


G 00 


10 00 


8 00 


8 00 


16 00 


8 00 


8 00 


8 00 









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Seaators. 




3 
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1 


j» 

3 
S. 
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p 


3 




1 


Walter Bownc, - 


235 


334 


139 


207 


149 


115 


1179 


Jasper Ward, - 


236 


332 


139 


204 


148 


112 


1171 


John Letl'erts, 


236 


334 


139 


207 


149 


115 


1180 


John A. King, - - 


1)7 


155 


*9 


1.54 


108 


66 


609 


Abel Huntington, 


44 


179 


130 


57 


19 


56 


485 


Congress. 
















John P. Osborn, 


83 


137 


102 


134 


96 


75 


627 


Sil.asWood, - - 


257 


226 


48 


72 


81 


54 


732 


Assembly. 
















B. T. Kissam, - 


141 


143 


62 


140 


139 


78 


703 


John D. Hicks, - 


145 


165 


64 


130 


127 


78 


715 


William Jones, - - 


isl 


242 


48 


68 


65 


49 


653 


Thomas Tredwell, 


170 


254 


28 


66 


49 


49 


616 


.Sheriff. 
















Samuel Mott, - 


2G9 


222 


125 


132 


126 


78 


952 


Richard Cornell, -- 


83 


177 


38 


81 


68 


51 


498 


County Clerk.. 
















Samuel Sheruian, - 


2>J7 


140 


130 


125 


104 


78 


874 


Edward Parker, - 


63 


262 


28 


87 


88 


50 


578 



"This fallLng off w.os owing to the personal pique of a po- 
litical clique. Gov. King knew the names of these nine vot- 
ers, one of whom was the father of the writer of this note. 



26 



108 



•iQUEEXS OOUXTY 



1S22. — Xnticc. — Jfr. Edward Mitclirll, J'nivcr- 
Bali."!, will preach at Jlr. Eldert's Hotel, Jaiuiiica, 
on Wednesday eveniiifr. August illst; and at tlic 
Court II0U8C, August aSd^at 3 r. JI. 

1822.— Samuel Mott, SlicrJfT, offers SIO reward 
for the npprelicnsiou of Jesse Powell, committed 
for passint; connterftit money, wlio hroke jail on 
the night of November lOtli. 

1822, Nov. 26. — Jolin- Holland, of Jamaica, 
killed two shoats, not quite nine months old, which 
weighed four hundred and thirty-five, and three 
hundred and ninety-five pounds rc^jcctively ; and 
Dr. BlatcliCord killed two whicli w<n-e fourteen 
months old and weighed, the largest four hundred 
and fifty-eight pounds, and the other four hundred 
and thirty-seven pounds.— JVovHcr. 

1822, Dec. .'). — In and alxnt Jamaica are great 
numbers of colored people growing up in ignorance 
of the Bible and everything that belongs to civili- 
zation, and who have nowhere to look for instruc- 
tion but to Sabbath-schools. The teachers having 
obtained permission, have opened a .school for them 
in the I'rtsbytcrian Church and have already gath- 
ered in about fifty. One or two person.s have sup- 
plied the money, .and now the ir.fluence of others is 
needed to constrain every colored person to attend 
the school which commences at .'! o'clock every 
Sabb.ath. The teachers attend at lialf past one to 
give catechetical and other religious instruction to 
all white children who wish to avail themselves of 
it. — Farmer. 

1822, I)cc. 19. — .Tolin Barnes Mott and Samuel 
Pettit wore killed by the caving in of a well at 
Henipste.ad. They "have left large families behind 
them. — L. I. Star. 

182.'J, Jan I. — Dr. Ounn's office is'ou the 3Iain 
Street, Jamaica, opposite John B. IJoe's store. 

1823, Jan. 2- — William Remsen, Jr., lias raised 
tlic past year a sweet potatoe whose weight wae 
upwards of scvcti pounds. 

1823, JV(H. 29. — !llirinm Ann Simonson intends 
to open a Female School at the house lately occu- 
pied by Mrs. Bartlette and Jliss Barnum, Jamaica. 

]J503. — Daniel Smith was Chairman., and John 
Higbie, Clerk of a meeting held February l5tli, 
which voted by a majority of twenty-seven to 
build a new church in Springfield, with school- 
rooms on the u]i|ier iioor. Anson Higbie, J )aniel 
Gracv, IJichard llendriikson, Michael (J'Jder and 
John' Higbie, were a couiinittee to get subscrip- 
tions. 

1823, Feb. 28. — On Friday afternoon, about four 
o'clock, a fire broke out in "the house of William 
Crooker, Wheatly, which was consumed with most 
of its contents. AH the family were absent. The 
flames wore carried by a uortbwest wind to David 
Laton's barn, which, willi all tlir fodder was also 
destroyed. 

1823. — On the lUQruing .of March 2d, between 



two and three o'clock, the houfo of Zebulon Se.a- 
ma»v .Jerusalem, with its. contents was destroyed 
by fire from a stove-pipe. A black boy. eight 
yearj? old, pcrislied in tlie fl.imcs. !Mr. and 3Irs. 
Seaman escaped with difficulty, and their son 
leajjcd from a second story window, and a black 
girl threw herself from the garret on the frozen 
ground and was little injured. 

182.'i, ^fan■h 12.— Lewis S. Hewlett and Curtis 
Peck intend applying to the Legislature for an act 
to form a road and bridge over the meadow and 
creek at the lie.ad of Little Neck Bay. 

1823, 3[arcJi 27.— The woolen factory of John 
.Seaman & j^du, Hempstead Harbor, was consumed 
by fire on Tuesday night with the machinery and 
ail its contents. The factory liad made much cloth 
very credit; ble to our country. — Star. 

182.", April :>. — The morning of last Sabbath 
was cloudy. At nine it commenced raining, which 
shortly turned to snow and the wind increased to .1 
gale, with such fjuanlilies of snow as to darken the 
sky. Two or three barns were blown <lown in 
Springfield. Our streets were deserted and all 
took reliige in their houses. Next morning the 
snow was twelve or eighteen inches deep, and in 
some parts of the county the .roads were banked 
up five feet. — L. I. Fannrr. 

1823, Mai/ 1.— Henry Jlitchell, of Flushing, 
gathered, last fall, from one tree, eight barrels of 
apples, six of which were .se.nt to Liverpool and re- 
alized thirty British sovereigns, (equal to Sl.'l.'i 22) 
exclusive of freight and commissions. — Statesman. 

182."., May 1'). — John Ixemsen, Sr.. of Jamaica 
.South, was, OM Monday last, knocked overboard by 
the jibing of the boimi of the vessel off Frog's 
Neck, and drownetl. 

1823, Jioie 8. — ^Tlose leaves distilled by Dr. 
X.ithan ..Slieiton, Jamaica. 

1823. June 5.. — All those ladies and gentlemen 
who feel desiroits to contribute to the erection of a 
Leclure-room in the village of .Jamaica are re- 
quested to meet in the Presbyterian Church, this 
at'tcrnoou at 3 o'clock. There will soon be no 
phtco to accommodate the Sabbath-school and no 
conv<'nient place for evening meetings.— J ij/wcr. 

1823, Jiili/ 21. — The wheat and rye harvest is 
generally fine, and h.ay of a great product. Corn 
crops promise well. 

J823, Jidp gD. — The barn of Samuel and Ado- 
nijah I'mV-rbill, Jericho, was struck by lightning 
on Friday morning, at sunrise, and consumed. It 
was filled with hay. 

1623, Aug. 14.— On Smiday night last the shoe- 
shop of Isaac Skirm was bmkcn ojien and robbed 
of tflOO worth of sb.ies. boots and leather. A few 
weeks since the stable of (ieneral Van Wyck 
Wickes was robbed of a military saddle, bridle 
martingal, and a plated gig Imruess. 



IN OLDEN TIMES, 



109 



1823, Auff. 28. — WiUiohmis Duryea, of Jamai- 

'ca, aged and hard of hearing, fell from his wagon, 

on the Jamaica turnpike, the wheel passing over 

him. He was conveyed to Bctts & Snedekcr's 

store, but died in seven day.?, 

1823, Sept. — A grey owl, measuring four feet six 
inches from the tip end of eacli extended wing, 
and twenty inches in height, was shot in tJie 
ucighborhood of Jamaica. 

1S23, Oa. 31;— The New York Comity Agri- 
cultural Society awarded a premium of S7 50 to 
James Scott, of Jamaica, for a bjick and four 
ewes ; and $10 to J. H. & W. E. Jones, of Cold 
Spring, for the best Hannel ; and to Thomas & 
AV. R. Jones $10, for two pair of "v.-oolen blanket.'?. 
Two pieces of their broadcloth, aiid of satinet, 
were highly praised. 

1823, Kov. 3-6. — Vote of Queens county for 
Assembly : 





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3 


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"William Jone.s. - 


22fi 


283 


27 


75 


30 


2S 


669 


Thonia.s Trcdwell, 


191 


305 


17 


60 


16 


27 


616 


James Hegeman, - 


119 


82 


112 


66 


55 


65 


499 


Kobert Sloorc, - 


92 


71 


KI7 


55 


5tt 


65 


446 



1823, Nov. 14. — James Entwistle, late a mer- 
chant of New York, was drowned at r)ygterbay, 
by slipping from the bowsprit of a small sail-boat, 
while tixing the jib. The wind blowing very fresh, 
it ,was impossible to save him. 

1823, Kor. 27. — Singleton ]\[itchell. 'Lewis S. 
Hewlett, Curtis Peck, Roe Ilaviland, Robert B. 
Van Z.andt and .Joseph liloodgood iirtend apph'ing 

'to the Legislature for an act to incorporate the Lit- 
tle Neck Road and Bridge Conipf.uy, with a capi- 
tal of $10,000, to make a road from near the house 
of Henry Lawrence across the creek and meadows 
(by a d»-aw-bridge,) easterly till it reaciK-s Eliza- 
beth Jlitchell's mill-dam, Manhasset Valley. — 
Farmer. 

1824, Jan.. -25. — -Jho woollen factory of AVilliam 
H. Jones .& Co., Cold Spring, was fired by an ap- 
prentice boy Samuel Shaw, aged 17, who confessed 

.lie had no motive or thought of the deed till the 
very momcirt. The fire was extinguished. — Hun- 
tington Eagle. 

1824, 'March, 2i.— Female Academy, Jamaica- 
— Mr. and Mrs. Hallworth* will be ready to re- 
ceive boarders and day-scholars by the 5th of May. 
References : General V. W. Wickes, Eliphalet 
Wickes, Rev. S. P. Funck, Dr. T. W. Blatchford, 
Henry C. Sleiglit. 

1824, March 11.— On Saturday afternoon last, 
Jesse Leverich's barn, at Newtown, with all the 

"Mrs. Hallworth died in April. 



out-houses, three valuable horses, grain, liay and 
all his fodder, was burnt by the pipe-of a blackman 
dressing lias in the barn. 

1824, April 21. — William "White, from London,^ 
will open >\ Boarding Academy, at Jamaica. — 
Terras, $160 per, year.— ;Posf. 

1824, Ajn'il 29. — An old fox and four cubs were, 
a few days since, taken from their burrow directly 
■under the Williarasbuvgii turnpike, two miles from 
Jamaica. The old one was shot, 

1824, Mai/ 4. — Samuel Legget, President, has 
put a teamboat on the "Whitestone ferry. 

1824, Jimc 3. — At the second anniversary of 
tlie Jamaica Auxiliary Society for meliorating the 
condition of the Jews, the following officers were 
chosen: Dr. X. Shelton, President; Revs. G. H. 
Srt3'res, S. P. Funck and J. Schoonmaker, Vice 
Presidents ; General Y. W. Wickes, Treasurer 
and Dr. T. W. Blatchford, Secretary. Directors — 
Kliph.'ilet AVickes, H. C. Sleight, Othniel Everitt, 
Abraham Bnrtis, John Rider. Assistant Femcde 
Managcrs—TsViiis, H. AVickham, iliss Eliza M. 
AA'ickes, Miss Sarah B. Titus, Sirs. Ann Scriba, 
5Ls. Thomas Baylis, Mrs. Ann Hackett, Mrs. 
Othniel Everett, Mrs.- Samuel Mills. 

C)wing to tJic inclemency of the weatlier the 
speakers from the city did not arrive. The Rev. 
Mr. Sav-res dismissed the assembly by reading the 
fifty-tliiid chapter of Isaiah. 

1824, June 26.— The New York County Agri- 
cultural Society awarded a premium of S9 to Mrs. 
Jacob -Polhemus, of 'Newtown, for the best but- 
ter. 

1S24, Jidy 29. — Jacob Lawrence's barn, Rock- 
away, was struck by liglitning on Friday and con- 
sumed with fifteen loads of h.ay, wheat and rj^e, a 
wagon and sleigh. Loss, -$350. 

1824, Aug. 11. — James Kent Bailey of New 
York, aged fourteen, was drowned iu Success Pond 
by falling over the boat in which he was fishing. — 
Farmer. 

1824, Nov. — A'ote of Queens County for Con- 
gress and Assembly : 

Congress. Assembly. 



Hempstead, - 
X. Hempstead 
Jamaica, - - 
Flashinp;. - ■ 
Newtown, - - 
Ovstertiav, - 





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164 


72 


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70 


60 


112 


119 


98 


114 


95 


81 


83 


81 


110 


61 


93 


63 


159 


75 


71 


104 


72 


65 


112 


100 


220 


82 


193 


186 


99 


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979 619 923 885 70S 649 



•Opposed to caucus nominatioos .nnd in favor of Presi- 
dential electors being shosen by tbe people, not by the 
Legislature. — Ed. 



110 



QUEENS COUNTY 



1824, Aiiff. 12. — 'J'lic barn of Jolin L. Rikcr, 
'Newtown, was struck by liglitn>n^ on Sunday cvc- 
niiif^, <in(l burned to tlie ground, with tlio hay, 
grain, etc. 

382-1. — Tlio examination and exliibilion of tlie 
classical scliool at Newtown will take place Octo- 
ber I9tli. 

1824, Xov. 2.J. — JamPS Kolyer, of Newtown, 
raised three bushels of clean tlax seed from three 
quarts sown. 

1824, Dec. 10.— As 'William Bownc, Flusbing, 
was returning home liis horses took fright and run 
against the gate post of his residence and threw 
him out. He survived but a few hours, He was 
much esteemed. 

1824, Dec. 30.— A horjo of Mr. Van Ruren was 
trotted from the twelve mile stone, to tlie ?ix miie 
stone, on the Brooklyn and Jamaica turnpike, be- 
fore a light Tvagon, without collar or trace.s, for a 
bet of SIOO. The time allowed was thirty-four 
minutes, but was performed in twenty-eight, and 
the horse not tired. — Farmer. 

1825. — Rufus King writes from AVashington, 
January 7th, to Jones and Tredwell, Jlembers of 
Assembly, for Queens County, that he is not a 
candidate for re-election to the United States Sen- 
ate, believing it to be proper and expedient that 
the remainder of his life should be devoted to the 
dutie? of a private citizen. 

182,5, Jan. 27. — The western mills at Dosoris 
owned by John Ji. Coles, was dc-'troyed by fiie, 
about three o'clock on Friday morning. Seven 
thousand buishels of wheat, three hundred barrels of 
flour and a large quantity of feed were destroyed. 
Ho was insured for -$20,000. — Farmer. 

182-5, Feb. .'5.— Benjamin Allen, Sr., of Groat 
Neck, raised some very fine fat cattle for the New 
York market. The largest wouUt weigh one thou- 
sand five hundred to one thousand eight hundred. 
^Sbir. 

1825, March 3. — The Long I.^land Farmer was 
merged in the Star, for a year or so, and published 
at Brooklyn and Jamaica. — Fd. 

1825. March 12. — Ouvernor Clinton thanks 
^Messrs. Jones of Cold Spring, for a pieces of Uan- 
nel, made of Long Island wool and by American 
skill, which he pronounces very creditable to the 
county. 

1825, April 1 I.— Simon Marstou, Jaranica, fell 
in his well accidentally, on Tltesday moruing and 
iustantly expired. 

1825, April 20.— Tliomas C. Pinckney. has 
opened his office near Smith's !Mills and the Jleth- 
odist church. Near Uockaway. 1 )ieds, mortgagee, 
&c., drawn, records searched, money procured 
and put out. 

1825. — :Mr. and 'SUn. Kingsbury and ]\Irs. 



Boardman's Female Academy at Jamaica, under a 
board of trustee.s, will open May 20lh. 

1825, June IS. — The New York County Agri- 
cultural Society awarded a ])rerainm of a dozen 
silver spoons (worth -S15) to Jlr. Thomas L;iwreuce, 
and another dozen (worth .S12) to !Mrs. William 
Br.igaw, both of Newtown, for second and third 
best butter. 

182-5, July 21. — The heat continues cxcessire, 
ninety-three degrees in our office. The fields are 
burnt up. — Farmer, 

1 825, Juli/ 28. — Long Island suffers from fiercro 
drought aiul heat. 

182.5, Auff. -i.- — -Judge Effingham Lawrence, of 
Baysidc, gave S340 for a Saxony Buck. 

1S25. — Mrs. Bruce and 3IJs8 Ledyard's Young 
Ladies' Academy, at Ne'*tov;n, will je-open No- 
vember 1st. 

1825, Noi.3. — Sel/-no»iiiinfio)i. — Daniel Smitli, 
offers hinirclf as candidate for Coroner, for the 
town of Hempstead, and asks the support of his 
friends and tho public generally at the ensuing, 
election. 

ry Kvcry Putclinian, Scot, .ind Vank^c, 

Give luc youi votus aud I'll humbly thank yc. 

1S25, Nov. — Vote of Queens County : 





C3 


3 


3 

1 


1 


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Cu 


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43, 


60 


77 


1G3 


148 


88 


579 


6U 


ye 


159 


376 


51 


1U3 


944 



StMlU. 

.Tosliua Sinil'.Li' - 
Nicholas W.TkofF,< 

As:iCJiiiiy. 
Silas l!oo," - - 40 47 l:W 158 150 184 747 

\Villi.ini I'inr," - 40 77 101 243 131 141 733 
Willi.im .loiips.t - 71 99 141 378 66 210 965 

Thomas TrcilHell,* 71 78 105 437 48 156 895 

Slieriff. 
John Curtis,* - 43 Vii lot 2-il lii8 215 815 

John .^imousou.t CD 46 128 3118 98 166 9U5 

Clirli. 
S.imuel Shrniian," 42 63 74 200 249 3.')4 9S2 
Kdwaid Parkcr.t 73 120 172 425 5 53 848 

1S25, Nor. 17. — Tale Notice. — Edward Parker, 
Jamaica, though not sncces.-f'ul, feels gratefully 
pleased for the generous support of Newtown, 
Fhishijig, .Jamaica and Hemjislead. The support 
also of thoso few friends in North IFi mp.stcatl and 
Oysterhay, he will ever remember with a grateful 
heart. 

1825, Nov. 19. — There was a great change in 
the weather yesterday morning, when a violent 



•Nominated at a Rciniblican nicctinp of wliich Daniel 
Smith, was t'hairmnn and .I.-ikriuiah Allon, Sicri-lary. — 
.Silas Kuc was iicimiiinliil in plq^c of H. 1". Jonrs. declined, 
at a nicotinp of which William Mott, was Chairman, and 
John I. Schenck, Secretary. 

tNomiuatod by a iiiculinpr " friendly to the rip^hts of the 
iir-niile,'' of which .Jiidfre Mitchell, w.-us Chairman and Johu 
rhomas Joues, of Jamaica, .Secretary. 



IN OLDEN TIMES, 



111 



■\viud came from the north-west. Before uiglit ico 
was formed in the streets and tlie bows of vessels 
were huug with icicles. — N. Y. Paper,'- 

1S2G, March 27.— ^Joshua and Rachel Kimber's 
Boarding School for girls, Flushing.. 

1826, May.—Vvev. Charles "W. Carpenter's 
Boarding School, for young, gentlemen, at Flushing. 

1826, Mai/ 20. — So dry a May is not common, 
wind easterly, but no rain. June 3d. — To the 
drought of the past mouth a delicious thunder 
shower has succeeded. 

1826, June 20. — Over nine inches of raiu fell at 
Jamaica,* in two days. 

1826, Aug. 10-12.— The heavy rains have 
caused great floods. All the mill-dams at SIus- 
queto Cove are broken, and Kirk's saw-mill is car- 
ried away. Two dams at Hempstead Harbor are 
carri(^d away. The two factories at Cold Spring- 
are greatly injured. — Star. 

1S2G, Feb. 16.— Rev. Asahel Xettleton preached 
his first sermon in Jamaica. After a short time 
one hundred and twenty persons were the subjects 
of a revival. — Farmer. 

182G, At(g. 10, 15. — In six days, as appears by 
the rain-guage of Union Hall Academy, nearly 
fourteen inches of rain have fallen. The freshet 
was so great that many mills, dams, etc., have been 
destroyed. At Cow Neck the mills and dam of 
widow Elizabeth Mitchell, and a mill-dam of Judge 
Mitchell were swept away^ as, also, one at Mus- 
quito Cove. 

1826, Aug. 26. — At a meeting of Republican 
electors, at the Court House — Robert Towuseud, 
Chairman, and H. C. Sleight, Secretary — Single- 
ton Mitchell and John T. Jones were appointed 
delegates to the Utica Convention to nominate a 
Governor. 

i^' No delegates appeared from Queens at the 
Herkimer (Bucktail) Convention. 

1826, Oct. 7. — Singleton Mitchell was Chair- 
man, and R. Beusoii Van Zaudt, Secretary of a 
meeting, at the Court House, to suppress all bank 
bills under $5,- 

1S26, Oct. 20.— At a meeting of Republican 
delegates friendly to "the riglits of thepeople," at 
the Court House — William H. Jones, Chairman, 
and Dr. M. M. Rogers, Secretary — Henry F. 
Jone.s.was nominated for Assembly. They also 
resolved to coimteract the intrigues of pretended 
-friends, who desire to make conflicting nomina- 
tions. They approve of DeWitt Clinton for Gov- 
ernor. — Ed. 

1826, Nov. 2. — At a meeting of delegates at the 
Court House— Micajah Townsend, Chairman, and 
James Rider, Secretary — Silas Roe was nominated 
for Assembly. 

*Dr. O'C'.ilIagli.in derire.s Jamaica from au ludiau word 
Amikque, siguityiiig a beaver. 



1826, Nov. (?, 7, 8.- 
Assembly : 



-Vote of Queens Couuty for 



.9 ^ " 



=H 3 



». 5.' 1^ 



•<; t- C4 » ti? a £. 

Thoma.s Tredwell,* - iiS 4G0 25 44 25 2 581 

Silas Roe, - - - - 79 93 59 J 38 38 57 464 

Hcury F. Jones, - IGl 52 36 24 77 38 383 

1826, Nov. 9.— John V.Hewlett, of Eastwoods, 
had a pumpkin vine, the length of one branch was 
forty-five feet ; of the second, thirty-five feet, and 
of the other six branches, one hundred and seven- 
ty feet — making two hundred and fifty feet of 
branches in all. It bore twenty-four pumpkins, 
nine of which weighed one hundred and eighty 
pounds, and the whole tweuty-four weighed four 
hundred pounds. 

1827, Jan. ].— Joseph Tuthill offers for sale his 
house and seven acres of land, east side of Beaver 
Pond. It has a fine spring and is very suitable 
for a tanner and currier, there being none in this 
vicinity. — Farmer. 

1827, Jan. 17. — Application will be made to 
the Legislature for leave to increase the Jamaica 
fire company from eighteen to twenty-four mem- 
bers. — I'arnier. 

1827. — A meeting will be held, Monday, Janu- 
ary 29th, at Alexander Rogers' inn, to adopt 
measures to obtain donations from the citizens of 
Jamaica, in aid of the suffering Greeks.f 

1827, Feb. 1.— School in Jamaica.— ^Ymis^m P. 
Robertson thanks those who have patronized him 
over two years. He has improved his fixtures 
and employed an assistant. — Fanner. 

1827, Feb. 21.— S.B. Nicoll, Jr., and his associ- 
ates, will apply to the Legislature for an act to in- 
corporate the Christian Institute, at Flushing, for 
literary purposes, with a capital of -$13,000. — 
Farmer. 

1S27, March 10.— John H. Jones, Oliver Coles, 
George D. Coles, Walter R. Jones, Robert W. 
IMott, will apply to the Legislature for an act to 
incorporate the Cold Spring Steamboat Company, 
with a cajntal not exceeding §30,000. 

1827, June 9. — The jail of Queens County was 
broken open and Alfred Verity, i-iith "William Be- 
dell, convicted of stealing a horse of William 
Smith, Great Neck, escaped. Veritj' was confined 
on suspicion of murdering Jeffrey llubbs, a negro, 
of Flushing, on the lOtli of January last.t 

*Abnndoned by ioth parties, he ran on his own hook. 

tXhe following, among otlier suras, were contrilmted 
from <,' aeeus County : Jamaica. §003; Students of Union 
Hall, #32 75 ; Newtown, ^6-M ; North Hemiistead, .«i-.»]0 ; 
K. II, Jones, $10. 

{Verity was re-arrested, and convicted of manshuigliter 
in the third degree, October 3d, 1831, and sent to the 
State's Prison for 4 vears. 



112 



QUEENS COUNTY 



lSv!7, Jmic M.— rin:bc "\V., Mifc of Siiliicy 
Seaman, of North Uempsloml, tpniiij: out of a wa- 
gon Mliile tlio horse was restive, with a cliild in 
her arms, anil died in a few hours after. 

1827, June 16.— Tlic stores of J. T. Jones and 
Co., and of Charles Hewlett, Cold Spring, wero 
robbed. Eight negroes are now in jnil, arrested on 
iuformatioa of one of the gang. The goods were 
recovered. 

1827. — July 4th was eclebrated at the head of 
Cow Neck. TiiL' company formed at two r. 31., 
with Captain Ilem-y Miinoirs troop of horse, and 
marclied to the Dutch Church, where the Declara- 
tion was ro.id by Dr. G. B.l'urdv, and the oration 
by B. F. Tliompson. 'J'hu company then marelicd 
back to AViiliam Allen's inn and partook of a 
sumptuous repast. Twenty-four to.ist wore drank 
with discharges of cannon. Judge ^litchell presi- 
ded. 

1827, July 12. — At a meeting of wool-growers 
and friends of the American s^ystcra, held at tlic 
Court House, .Singleton Jlitchell was appointed 
Chairman and John II. Jones, Secretary, and Ef- 
fingham Lawrence, Jones and ^litcheil sent as 
delegates to the State Convention to be held at 
Albany, July 16th. 

lS21,Aug. 23.— The corner-stone of the Flush- 
ing Institute was laid, containing a Greek Testa- 
ment, newspjipers, names of county officers, etc. 

1S27, Xov. — Vote of Queens County. 



Senate. 
John D. DitniiB" 
Peter Slmriic, - - 
Jacob Tj'siin, - 
John I. Sclicnck.t 

Assembly 
Tlioiiias Trcdwell, 
H. F. Jones.t - 
Willinni I'iue, - 



O 

s- 

. 35 

- 48 

175 

196 

- 20 
258 
2 



351 

4:!0 

141 

73 

473 

154 

74 



■3 

t> 

!? 

16 

63 

97 

2U6 

SI 
91 
21 



=- 2 



>^ 5< 



74 

81 
66 
76 

ei 

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65 



18 
56 
89 
74 

CI 
45 
12 



15 
15 
64 
64 

12 
56 



H 
o 
? 

.'•)(19 
(•>93 
572 
663 

663 
623 
170 



The Jackson plirensy c«,rrjed the State. The 
Clintouiaus were neutral. — SUtr. 

1S28, May 22. — Samuel J. Underbill, J.icob 
Jackson, Jacob Willis, Ezra Smith, and others, 
from Jericho, detected a gang of villains wlio stole 
Sncdeker's horses, New J^ots, three horses from 
Cold Spring, a horse and mare from Lewis Hew- 
lett, East Woods, and sold them in Thiladelphia. 
One Nash and Norman l?aker were in this gang. 
Baker confes.'ed that he broke open .1 tailor's .•■hop 
and the store of Charles Peek, Flushing ; Schoon- 
maker's store, Flalbush ; Hewlett's store and 
Jones' store, at Cold Spring, and Thineas Carll's 
Btore, at Huntington. 

*In place of J.inios Fester declined from ill liealtli. This 
jvas the rctrular Kepublicaii neiniii.iticin at Tariiiii.aiiv Hall. 

tXoiiiinated at a ineotiiif; of which (Jenmul Uauiel De- 
dell was C'hairuiau, »ud Thomas t'. I'inckuey, .Secretary. 



_ \S-2% June 12.— As Richard Kliodes and wife, 
Near Itockuway, were going to market, in a one- 
horse wagon, the horse got frightened, in Brooklyn, 
aiul d.ished them out against a building. She was 
killed and he sorely bruised. She left six children. 

1828, July IS.-Tbc fall of rain has been so 
great and frequent within a few daj-g that few 
fanners liereabouts will he able to get in their hay 
in merchant.ible order, and a large portion will be 
entirely spoiled. Bye and wheat promises mcH, 
corn looks uuusuallj'-iine. — Farmer. 

1828, Aug. 28.- It i.-» sickly on Long I.-land, 
especially at Jamaica, North nempstcud, New- 
town, Flushing and New Utrecht. There is also 
a disease among horses, the blind staggers. 

Uct. 9. — The sickness continues, but is not gen- 
erally fatal, except with the aged. There is great 
mortality among horses. 

1S2S, Sept. 4. — I)ied, on .Saturd.ny afternoon, at 
Jamaica, L. E. A. Eigenbrodt. L.L.D., aged tifty- 
four years, I'rincipal of Union Hall Academy thir- 
ty-one years. — Farmer. 

1828, Oct. 16. — The dwclling-liousc, occupied 
by John Byrd, on the roaJ from .Jamaica to Flush- 
ing, and owned by Nathan .Sanlord, Esq., was con- 
sumed by fire that took from tho chimney, on 
Jlonday last. — Farmer. 

1828, Xov. 20.— Vote of Queens County. 



o 

•-1 



Congress. 
James Lent,* 
Silas Wood.t 

Asstmlily. 
Thomas Tredwell,t J 63 



314 

291 



II. F. Jones 

.^hcrif. 
Richard Cornell, t 
Samuel Molt," - 

ClcrL 
John .Sinionson.t 
S.amuel .Sherman" 



4:« 



175 
4i*5 



132 
523 



225 

C27 

623 
235 

470 
433 

629 
304 



200 
J 25 

81 
250 

94 
244 

63 
297 



122 
112 

98 
142 

82 
163 

116 
132 



13 

102 
103 



107 
93 

87 
125 

93 
123 



3! 



192 

85 

82 
194 

87 
195 

161 
120 



1 1 55 
1343 

II. '.4 

1410 

995 
1600 

1199 
1499 



229 


Fhnhinp, - 


. 


- S!.58 


50 


(Jvstorhay, 


. 


33 


20 


(ilen Cove, 


. 


- 31 


12 


Jericlio, - 


- 


20 


50 


Cow Neck, - 


- 


- 3i) 



1S28. — Revenue of Post Offices in Queens 

County : 

Jamaica, 
lleinpstead, 
Norlh Hempstead, 
Soulh Oysterhay, 
Cold Spring, - 

1829, Feb. — A week or two since a hog raised 
by B. Lowerre, Flushing, four years ohl, was 
killed and weighed, when dressed, seven hundred 
and seventy-seven pounds. 

1829, Fch. — An ewe of Joseph Denton, North 
llempste.ad, has this season no less than six lambs. 

1829, A2)ril 23. — The house of the widow Law- 
"Jackson. tAdmiuistration. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



113 



reuce, Flushing, was destroyed by fire ou Friday 
last. It is supposed to liave orif^inatcd from tlie 
chimney, as the roof was ou fire when first discov- 
ered. 

1S29. — The friends of Sunday-schools are re- 
quested to meet, Slay ith, at Union Hall Academy, 
Jamaica, to form a Oouuty Sunday-School Union. 
— Farmer. 

1SS9, June 25. — The dwoning-house of the toll- 
gatherer on the Eockaway Turnpike v.-as burnt, 
about 11 o'clock ou Saturday evening last. 

1S29, Aitcj. 4. — Pursuant to public notice from 
the pulpit, a temperance meeting was held in the 
school-house, Hempstead. Revs. Webster and 
Hall made addresses. The officers of the Society 
are John Lefferts, President ; John Davidson, 
Secretary, and Eldred Piatt, Treasurer. 

1S29. — At a meeting of the people of Jamaica, 
in the Lecture-room of the Presbyterian Church, at 
five P. M., Sept. 7th, Timothy Nostrand, Chairman, 
and S, L. Lamberson, Secretary, it was moved by 
V. W. Wickes, and seconded by D. Lamberson, 
that a society be formed for the suppression of in- 
temperance. Bishop Mcllvain was present. 

1829, Dec. S.^George Ellis Ryerson was ar- 
rested at John Collier's, on the Williamsburgh 
turnpike, while oflsrir.g for sale some prayer-books 
he had stolen (as also altar decorations and chancel 
carpet) from Grace Church, Jamaica. He had 
broken open the late Major Lefferts' house and the 
summer residence of A. L. Molyneaux. He was 
committed to jail by John Rhodes, Esq. — Farmer. 

1829, Nov — Vote of Queens County for As- 
sembly. 

!2! 



S h: p. s- i? ,3- c' 

Thomas Tredwell, - 3^ TO IfK) 49 6:!1 12 891 
H. F. Jones,* - - - 84 53 t-7 117 ICt! 3bO tib9 

1829.— The barn of Henry Stoothoff, Newtown, 
was burnt on Wednesday uiglit, Dec. 16th, by J, 
J. Quackenboss, a miserable looking object, who 
had worked fot'him.f 

1829, Dec. 17.— At Pond Hollow woods, Oys- 
terbay, two boys, in search for rabbits, found, un- 
der an old stump, no less than one hundred and 
thirty black snakes, some six feet in length, all 
which were killed. — Farmer. 

1829. — At a meeting of the Physicians and 
Surgeons of Queens Coinity, at the Court House, 
December I7th, Dr. Gustavus Baj'lies, of New- 
town, was appointed Chairman, and Dr. Town- 
send, of Oysterbay, Secretary. It was then re- 
solved to form a ^Medical So'ciety. The officers 

•The election was contested and the seat given to Jones. 
tHe was sent to the State Prison for seven years. 



elected were: Dr. N. Shelton, President ; Dr. Lu- 
cius Iveliog, YiQC-FresideHt ; Dr. Townsend, Sec- 
retary ; Dr. Austin Chapman, Treasurer ; Drs. 
George B. Purdy, Purcel Cook, John Davidson, 
William W. Kissam and J. C Townsend, Censors. 
Drs. Shelton, Kissam and Johnson were appointed 
to draft by-laws and rules. Adjourned to meet 
the last Tuesday in May, 18.30. 

Besides the above, Drs. James and Gideon N. 
Searing, Edwin Webb, William Wheeler, Morris 
Snedeker and Richard Seaman v,'ere present. 

13-30. — A large temperance meeting of different 
denominations was lield, February Sth, in the 
Episcopal Church, Flushing, which was addressed 
by the Revs. Messrs. Mcllvain and Goldsmith. 
An approving letter from Rev. Dr. Milnor was 
read. Over thirty signed the pledge. — Farmer. 

18.30. — Elias Hicks, Jericho, while writing a 
letter, Febniary 14th, was attacked -nith paralysis, 
which nearly deprived him of the use of his left 
side and the power of speech. He died on the 
evening of the 27th, aged nearly eighty-two.* 

1830.-^A meeting, to form a Temperance Socie- 
ty will be held in the I'resbyterian Church, New- 
town, at eleven A. 31., February 1.5th. Addresses 
will be made by Revs, Mr. Mcllvain, and Drs. 
Cox and Dewitt. 

1830, March 25. — The Legislature authorized 
North Hempstead to sell their Common lands. 

1830, ^jjr/Z.— Weight of five oxen, of the late 
David Allen, of GreafNeck : 

First, alive, - - 2,456 lbs. Dressed (quarters)], .524 lbs. 

.Second, '• - - - S.^yO " '• . . . 1,392 ■' 

Third, " - - 2.3.-2 " " ... 1,472 " 

Fourth, " - - - 2,-240 " "... 1,30-2 " 

Fifth, •' (steer) 2,232 " " - - - 1,3U0 " 

1830, May 6. — William Kelly, a foreigner, aged 
twent}-, was sent to the States Prison, two years, 
for robbing Peter Luyster's store. Cedar Swamp, 
of 640 worth of coin. 

1830, May 6.- The Long Island Telegraph 
(since the ///i/^/cer) was commenced at Hempstead 
by Lcfevre & Hutchinson. 

1830, May 2-5. — At an adjourned meeting of 
the Queens County Medical Society, at the Court 
House, Nathan Shelton, Chairman and James C. 
Townsend, Secretary, Drs. Thomas Garvie, M. M. 
Rogers, Selah S. Carll, William L. ilitchell and 
Asa Spalding were received as members. Drs. 
Shelton, William J. Johnson and AVilliam W. 
Kissam, were appointed a publishing committee 
and to draft a code of medical ethics. A code of 
by-laws was adopted. 

1830, July 1. — Moses Searing, aged thirty-five, 
a highly respected member of the ilcthodist con- 
nexion, received a fatal kick from a horse in the 

*S. E. Clements, from Brooklyn, secretly opened the 
grave, at midniirht, raised the cottiu lid and took a plaster 
cast of Hicks, from which several busts were made by 
Brower. 



n 



114 



QUEENS COUNTY 



jiit of the stomach. He leaves a wife, two childrcu 
aud (lej)ciiilc-nt niotlicr. ' 

1830. — Stii'icsU) Ncir Yofl-. — Curtis & Jlorviu's 
stage leaves IJavid liedcli's, llunijistcad, Monday, 
AVedncsday and Friday. 

Curtis & Lowcrrc'a stage loaves Benjarain 
Lowerre's and Curtis Peck's, FJiisliiiig, aud Ij. 
IJloom's, Newtown, twice a day. 

C. & J. iSutjdiin's stage leaves lluuter's hotel, 
Jamaica, daily. 

P. &. S. Vandewatcr's stage, leaves South Oys- 
terbay, 'i'uesdays. 

JdIiu .Jackson's .stage leaves Jernsalera, Fridays. 

Coe S. Downing & Co.'s stage leaves T. I'ar- 
isli's, Oysterhay, Jlonday, Wodn(;.''day mid Friday, 
rin. Norwicli, aud calls at AVilliam P. AVrighl's 
and J. P. Searing's, Jericho. 

John 11. Schcnck's stage leaves lleinptead 
lliirbiir, ri'i. Cow Neck, Success and Jamaica, 
Monday', Wednesday and Friday. 

1830. —The 4tli of July was celebrated in the 
3Icthodist Church, IIempfit^ad. The Declaration 
was read b}' Dr. Clowes, and the oration delivered 
by Dr. Edwin 'Webb. — Inquirer. 

1830, Jiihi 5.— 'I'he first number of the School 
Mitsler was )mblis]ied at llem])stead, bv Timothy 
Clowes, L.L D. 

1830, July 21. — The late rains h.nve done very 
little injury to the crops, except to the oats, whieli 
being heavy was beaten down. The wheat and 
rye have yielded great returns. The corn looks 
finely. 'I'he fruit-trees look promising, not\\iih- 
standing the late frosts.^— ,Stor. 

1S30, July 23.— :Mr. I.cfevre will deliver a dis- 
course on the second death, next Sunday afternoon, 
.1 David DeMott's, Near llockaway. 

1830, Juhi 28. — The weather the present month 
has been warm without precedent, 'i'he thermome- 
ter, at Jamaica, stood at 100° ou the 18th.-^6'/«r. 

1S30.— Zion Church, Little Neck, was conscerat- 
c.l on Friday, J\dy 30th, by Bishop llobart. The 
diurch, with the glebe, organ and other furniture, 
was given to the Vestry by Wyuant Van Zandt. 

1830, Juhj 31. — On Tuesday night the barn of 

llichard AVay, on the .Jainaica turnpike, three 

'■ miles and a half from the Williamsburg ferry, was 

] burnt, with its contents, bis whole stock of grain 

! and a fine horse. 

IS.'iO, ./«.''/. — J. & W. Hunter's stage runs from 
Flushing, on the arrival of the steamboat there 
from New York, ria. Jamaica to llockaway and 
back. Fare fifty cents. 

1830, Julij. — Ast Mrs. Cornelius Reniscn, of 
Newtown was returning home from sitting up with 
a sick neighbor, the horse took fright aud overturned 
the wagon, thereby causing her death. 

1830. — On Thursday afternoon. August .5th, the 
lightning struck the barn of AVilliam Iiemsen, 



Great Neck, killing his son, aged seventeen, and 
rendering his companion insensible. The barn, 
with it,-* contents of hay, grain, wagon, sleigh, etc., 
was consumed. Loss, Sl,oOO. 

18.30, Oct. 5. — At a Itepnblican Convention, at 
the Court llou.-'e, of which James liegeman was 
Chairman, and Henry Allen Sccrettny, .Silas Uoe, 
of Jamaica, was nominated for tiie Assembly, and 
the nomHiation of Enoe T. Thiioop,- for Coveruor, 
aj)proved. 

1830, Or/. 9.— Samuel H. Van Wyck, agi-d fifty- 
five, <i we.ilthy and respectable inhabitant of J^aw- 
rence's Neck, was drowned by being precipitated 
from a boat into the water. 

1830, Oct. 9.— At a meeting of Independent'IFe- 
pnblican electors, at James Poole's North Heniji- 
stead, Fliplialet Wickes, Chairman, and }>[. !JI. 
Itogers, .Sccretaiy, Thomas Tredwell wasMiomiiuit- 
ed for the Assembly, and the nomination of Fran- 
cis danger, for Governor, apiJijovecL 

1830, Oct. — Ou Thursday/ Benjamin Sniiih, a 
boy of fourteen, was thrown from a horse, in New- 
town, and, falling on his head, died a few hours after. 

1830, Xov. — A young man named Eldert, about 
fifteen, at Ifallctt's Cove, while riding on horseback 
was struck in his side by the shall of a passing 
chaise, which caused his death next day. 

\^Z0, Nov. — Vote of Queens County : 



Congress. 


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3 

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3 

1 


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09 


2 c' 

5- E 


John A. Kiiip," 


- 87 


un 


C33 


2-26 


!I4 


71 1275 


Jaincii Lunt, - 


- 100 


221 


260 


117 


i!l 


169 1018 


Asscmlfty. 














I«l!.-is Kon, - - 


- l.-i-l 


2:!() 


2-33 


238 


G9 


173 10% 


Tlionias TrL-Jwcl! 


« 7a 


la- 


7U0 


•Ji 


110 


62 1182 


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pstead stores : 


ItiitttT, per lb.. 


. - 18 


cts. 


Kve, 


j)c'r V>e>licl, 


- 75ct8. 


l,;iid. 


- 11) 


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Oats, 


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- - 38 '• 


ll.nns, " 


9(1 10 


'• 


Corn, 


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- 03 *• 


C':uilles, " 


- 11 


" 


riitatois, " 




■j: « f.o " 


Jluuuv, " 


. - 10 


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Onious, '■ 




- - 50 " 



1830.— Pos; Offices and Post Masters in Queens 
County. — Flushing, Curtis I'eck ; Hempstead, E. 
A. Clowes ; Head ot Cow Neck, William Allen ; 
Jamaica, E. Wickes; Little Neck, E. Lawrence; 
Newtown, B. Bloom ; North Hempstead, James 
Poole; Oysterbay, James Colvell ; tlystelbay 
South, Timothy Carman ; Buckram, James Cock ; 
Cedar Swamp, P. Luyster. 

1830, J)(V.— Royal Mollineaux, a miller, a mile 
and a half below Hempstead, killed a hog scMCcly 
eighteen months old, which weighed six hundred 
and twenty-three pounds. 

1831, Jan. 17. — AVo have had a snow storm of 



*Auti Jackson. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



115 



about tweutj inclies, uueqnallecl in violence and 
duration since 1S20-1. 

1831, Jan. IS. — At a meeting of tlie iuliabitants 
of Jamaica, at Hewlett Greed's, Elipbalet Wickes, 
Cliairmaa and Dr. N. Shelton, Secretary, it was 
deemed expedient to have a Eailroad from Jamaica 
to Brooklyn, and that John A. King, Col. John 
Rhodes, Jr., Silas Koe, James Herrimau, and Wil- 
liam E. Gracie, he a committee to confer with a 
like committee from Brooklyn. 

1831, 'Jan. 22. — On Saturday evening, at ten 
o'clock, the wagon shop of Langdon Wright, Near 
Eockawa_y, with its contents, was consumed by fire. 
Loss, SSdo. On ilonday following, at four A. M., 
the house and store of Anthony Davidson, same 
place, were entirely consumed by unextinguished 
coals in an ash barrel. Nothing was saved but 
the account-books. The family had merely time 
to escape from the flames. Loss, -$3,000. — Star. 

1831, FcJ). — Mr. Tappen, of Norwich, slaught- 
ered a hog, twenty months old, which weighed, 
when dressed, eight hundred and twenty-two 
pounds. 

1831, March 2. — On Thursday morning, Martin 
Way, of Newtown, aged about forty-five, lost his 
life by his horses running away and throwing him 
out of the wagon. 

1831, March 30. — On Thur.sday morning about 
four o'clock, the capacious diuing-hall of Peck's 
hotel. Flushing was burnt. 

1831, march 31. — The editor of the Inquirer 
■will pi-eacli next Sunday, at three P.M., at Goo D. 
Jackson's, Jerusalem .South. 

1831, Ajiril 15. — Much injury has been done 
by the late severe gale. At Jericho, two barns 
and a hovel were prostrated, killing a cow, etc. A 
house, near Blusquito Gove, was moved several 
inches from its foundation. 

1831, June 18. — The new barn of the wid- 
ow of Townscud Hauxhurst, North Hempstead, 
took five from a red-hot staple that a carpenter had 
driven in one of the timbers. 

1831.— Drowned, July 24tli, off Coney Island 
beach, Thomas Carman, Captain, and James Aker- 
ly, Mate of the schooner Sjicculator, of Hemp- 
stead. Thej^ left the schooner in the long-boat, 
with three others, who narrowly escaped, oue be- 
ing picked njj by a smack, and the other two 
swimming back to the schooner. The Captain 
left a, wife and ten children. — Farmer. 

1831, Artg. 4. — On Sunday, Jamaica was visit- 
ed by a violent squall, from the south-west, with 
torients of rain. It continued an hour and con- 
siderably damaged fruit and other tree^. 

1831, Aug. 13. — At a numerous meeting of 
teachers and others, friendly to the cause of litera- 
ture, at T. Parish's, Oysterbay. Dr. Townsend, 
Chairman, and G. B. Docharty, Secretary it was 



resolved to form a County Lyceum, and that a 
meeting be called, at the Court House, September 
24th, at one P. M. 

1831, Jan. — Samuel Mott, Sheriff, writes that 
the jail of Queens County, for the third time during 
his term of office, is free of prisoners for debt or 
crime. 

1831, Jan. — The first number of the Union 
Hall (kt.retfe, Jamaica, appeared. It was a semi- 
monthly, edited by the students of tho Academy. 

1831, Jcin. 27. — The snow is two feet deep in 
the fields, and twice that depth in the roads. 
Since last Saturday week there has been no com- 
munication with New York by the turnpike. We 
cannot visit a friend in Jamaica without going 
across lots.* — Hempstead Paper. 

1831. — During the thunder storm, August 26th, 
the house of David Springsteen, Newtown, was 
struck and injured slightly. A person at work in 
the gai-dcu was knocked down and remained in- 
sensible some time. A boy sleeping in the house 
was not hurt. . 

1831, Aug. — J. J. Hewlett, Eastwoods, raised 
good white grapes of a very pleasant odor and fla- 
vor from a native vine of our woods. 

1831, JVoy.— Caleb AVright, Oysterbay, took 
from one vine in his garden, ten pumpkins weigh- 
ing, in all, two hundred and nineteen pounds. — 
Star. 

1831, Nov. 5. — At a meeting of the Oysterbay 
Lyceum, the following officers were chosen : George 
D. Coles, President ; William M. Hewlett, Augus- 
tus K. Griflin and Charles H. Eglee, Vice-Presi- 
dents ; G. B. Docharty, Secretary, and John J. 
Weeks, Treasurer. 

Vote of Queens County Nov. 7, 8, 9 : 
uAsscmhhj. 
1,359 I Samuel Mott, - - - 1077 

Slicriff. 
1567 I John Curtis, - - - - 899 
Cltrli. 

- 2469 I 
Coroners. 

- 1298 I Andrew C. Hcgeman, lOaa 
J294 I Hemy Allen, - - - 1006 

- 13)G I EliasHicks, - - - - ]021 
1351 I Hend. A. Hendrickson, 987 

1831, Nov. 10. — As Abraham Pine, of Hemp- 
stead, was returning home, on Tuesday, with a 
load of lime and lumber, he fell ofi' the wagon and 
both wheels passed over his thighs. 

1831, Bee. 13. — Dr. Townsend was Chairman, 
and John D. Feeks, Secretary, of a meeting, at 
Oysterbay, to aid in suppressing the use of ardent 
spirits, when a Temperance Society was formed 
and the following officers chosen : Arnold Fleet, 

*Wood was so scarce in New York that the lumber yards 
were sold out for fire wood. A farmer asksd $15 for a 
sleigh load of wood. 



1831. 

John A. King, - 

John Simonson, - 

Samuel Sherman, - 

jr. M. Eopjers, - - 
Beujamiu Lowerre, 
Elijah Seaman, Jr., 
Daniel Mott, - - 



28- 



116 



QUEEN- S COUNTY 



President; Aaron iJcgrauw, Vice-President ; Dr. 
Towiisend, Sccrctart/ ; Isaac Townsciid, Ambrose 
Parish, Daniel Cock and Alfred Earlc, llxecutive 
Committee. 

1831, Z)cc.— David Bedell, Ilempstend, slauglit- 
ered a pig, about nine montlis old, which weiglied, 
■when dressed, four hundred and twelve pounds- 
Daniel Combs killed another wliich weighed four 
hundred and ouc pounds. 

1831, JDcc. — John and Coe D. Jackson, Jerusa- 
lem South, killed a hog which weighed eight hun- 
dred and thirly-lhrec pound.^. 

1831, Dfc— George Hewlett, Merrick, has a 
cornstalk on whicli grew thirteen perfect oars. 
Seven are large and full, the others well filled but 
not so large. 

1831, Dec. — EHas Iligbic, Westbury, raised an 
ear of corn containing twenty perfect rows, well 
filled and of good size.* 

1831, Dec. 29. — The Q neons County Temper- 
ance ■ Society v^as formed. The ofticors were : 
Van Wyck Wickes, President; Rev. 31. E.irlo, 
John Leiferts, David ]>amber»on, Isaac I'eck, 
"William Bragaw and James M. Onderdonk, I'ice- 

j Presidents; Itcv. R.D. \IM, Corresponding Secre- 
tary ; Dr. William . J. Johnson, 2Vras(()'C>',- IJcvs. 
E.W.Crane, John Goldsmith, George A. Shelton, 
William H. Lewis, Charles Webster and Jlr. Jolni 
D. Fceks, Executive Committee ; Dr. J. C. Town- 
send, Itecording Secretary. 

1832, Jcat. 3. — A meeting was held in the Re- 
formed Dutch Church, !^orth Hempstead, Rev. 
James Otterson, Chairman, and Jiimes JI. Onder- 
donk, Secretary, when it was resolved to form a 
society to aid in the reformation going on in our 
country, from intemperance. Addresses were uuide 
by Dr. Townseud and llevs. llall, Webster and 
Crane. 

1832. — About January Ith, Ilcnry Hewlett, 
Eastwoods, had an ox hit by a strange dog, whioh 
died January 17th. Since then Lewis Hewlett 
has lost three cows, and .John J. Hewlett a hog. 
Sto])hen Robbing' dog was also bit. After being 
chained nine days and showing no signs of hydro- 
phobia ho was let loose, when he ran ofl" south to 
Hardscrabble, then turned back, passing through 
Eastwoods to Cold Spring, whore ho attacked a 
colored woman. He then crossed to Babylon aijd 
Islip where he was killed, on the l!)th, having first 
bitten many dogs. Jlany people go about their 
ordinary business armed with clubs. Small pox 
and measles have also prevailed- — Cor. of Star. 

1832, Feb.— A promising son of Oliver JfcGin- 
nis, of North Hempstead, was drowned by falling 
in a pond while skating. 

1832, March 1. — Seaman, son of David Alleu, 



*Mr. Hicks, of Rockawny has an car of corn one row 
aheaJ of the Westbiirj- car. 



of North Hempstead, was killed by the accidenUl 
discharge of his gun. 

1832.— The schooner Increas^e, Captain H. B. 
Pcarsall, of Jloft Bedell's Norfolk line of packets, 
came ashore, in the gale last Sunday night, March 
Gtli, near New Inlet. Four or five passengers wore 
washed overboard and drowned. The rest wore 
rescKcd by General Daniel Bedell, Commissioner 
of Wrecks, and his neighbors, David andTredwoll 
Bedell, Thomas Foster, Horton Homan, .Tohn Mor- 
gan, Richard and William Rhodes, Benjamin, 
.James and Zacliariah Story, Nelson Shaw, 'Fhom- 
as Sopers, Thomas Southard, Isaiah Thomas, Wil- 
liam rredwell and Joseph Wood, at the risk of 
their lives. — Inquirer. 

1832.— SIO Pcivard.-Ou the night of JIarcli 
1 1th, some villain entered the Methodi.*t church, 
Honipstoad, and wantonly destroyed the books, and 
broke the windows of the Episcopal church, and 
did other acts of miscliief in various parts of the 
village of Hempstead. 

1832. — The annual Fair of the Fragment .''oeic- 
ty of the Reformed Dutch Church, Jamaic:i, will 
take place April 10th, at one P.M., at John Hunt- 
er's Hotel, and continue in the evening. 

1832, Mai/ 2.— The new store kept by J. & E. 
Drew, and owned by Daniel Rhodes, near the ciU't 
toll-gate, Jamaica, was burnt, with its contents, ou 
Tuesday night. Loss, .$4,000.* 

1832. — At a meeting of the Queeiifi Count.y 
Medical Society, at the Court House, May 29th, 
wore present : ])rs. .Searing, Sr. and Jr., .Shelton, 
Josiah Bloodgood, (iarvio, Kellog, Chiipman, Rog- 
ers, Carll, I'urdy, Davidson, A. R. GriHin, Mitch- 
ell, S[iiilding, 'i'ownsend. Cook, >Veljb, Wheeler, 
Johnson, Kissam, S. L. Condict, Tredwell and 
Sncdeker. Absent — Bavlies and Woodhull. Drs. 
II. T. Horsfield and N. W. Condict were received 
as members. Dr. I'urdy gave an interesting lec- 
ture on jntormittent, reniillcnt and bilious fevers 
th.it prevailed in Nortli Hempstead in 1820, '29, 
'30 and '31. The Tcmperence resolutions were 
indefinitely postponed. — Farmer. 

1S.'!2, Jlay 12. — The Queens County Lyceum 
mot at the Court House, Dr. Townsend, Prosidont, 
and T. Clowes, .*^ocrotary. A lecture on education 
was given bv AV. Hutchinson ; on astronomy, by 
G. B. Dochart}', and on human intelligence by 
W. M. Hewlett. 

1832. — A subscription book for the atock ot the 
Brooklyn and .Tauiaica Railroad will be opened, 
Jlay 2lst, at Hewlett Creed's, Jamaica. 

]832. — The subscription book fur the Hallett's 
Cove Railway, and lor cutting a ship canal across 
the cove, will be opened 3Iay 30th. Capital 
•S150,000. 

1832, June 4.— The Supervisors resolved to lo- 

"Tlift I">rpws were nncsted for a con.<pir»ey to defraud 
the iEtua I'ire liLsuraoce C'oiiipauy. 



IN OLDEN TIMES. 



117 



cate the County Clerk's Office in Jamaica, on the 
lot between Dr. W. W. Kissani and Silas Roe, 
deceased. The building is to be of brick, and fire 
proof. Jarvis Jackson and John C. Smith are to 
issue proposals for building. — Fanner. 

1SS2, J7ine 18. — About six A. M., during a se- 
vere thunder storm, the barn of John Skidmore, in 
the village of Jamaica, was struck, and, in a few 
minutes, the whole building ^yas in flames, and a 
quantity of goods and a valuable horse were losjt. 
No m&m-a,i.ce.— Farmer. 

18.32, June 18. — Two lads, Griffin and Robinson, 
whose parents reside in Flushing were drowned 
bj' the upsetting of asail-boat in a stjiiall. — Farm- 
er. 

1832, June 20. — The Asi.atic cholera made its 
appearance in New York. 

1832, June 21. — John I^ott and others, ef Hicks' 
Neck, one day last week, caught, at one haul, 
' eiglity thousand bony fish, -v/hick are wsed for ma- 
nure. 

1S32. — Charles Jenkins, family and friend.^, 
thank Smith Cornell and Robert Greeinvood for 
bringing ashore, at the risk of their own lives, Ja- 
cob Valentine, who fell from a boat in Jamaica 
Bay, on Saturday, June 30th. 

1832, July i. — The Female Missionary Associ- 
ation of Grace Church, held a Fair at Hunter's 
Hotel, Jamaica. At three P. M., the corner-stone 
of the Reformed Dutch Church was laid ; and at 
five a respectable audience assembled in the exhi- 
bition-room of Union Hall, to listen to the ad- 
dresses of the Literary Society. 

1832, July 4. — At Hempstead, William J. 
Clowes delivered the oration. Dr. Webb read the 
Declaration and Henry F. Jones acted as Marshal. 

1832, July 11. — The surveyors of the railroad 
are expected on the ground nest week. This delay 
is caused by the illness of the surveyor. — Farmer. 

1832.— Thursday, July 2Gth, was set apart by 
the Episcopal and Reformed Dutch Churches of 
Jamaica and Newtown, as a Fast da^-, on account 
of the cholera in New York and vicinity; — Farmer. 

1832, July 30. — The barn of John and Jacob 
Bergen, three miles east of Jamaica, was, with its 
contents, destroyed by lightning, on Monday even- 
ing. Loss S800. 

1832, Aug. 1. — On Tuesday evening, a storm of 
rain and hail, coining from the west, visited Jamai- 
cn and Hempstead, where some hail stones fell as 
large as white walnuts, breaking upwards of five 
hundred panes of glass. The corn was much torn 
and broken down. — Star. 

1832, Aug. 23. — ^Money and clothing, to the 
amount of §l.jO, have been contributed to the poor 
of New York suffering by stagnation in business, 
caused by cholera, from the Presbyteriitn and 
Dutch Reformed congregations of Jamaica. Con- 



tributions were also sent from Hempstead. — Far- 
mer. 

1832, Aug.—'^S% 50 have been collected in 
Grace Church, Jamaica, for the sufferers by chole- 
ra in New York.* 

1832, Sep?. — -'Joseijli Gorsline, raised a squash 
weighing twenty-four pounds, and measuring thir- 
ty-five inclies around. 

1832, Oct. 18. — ^The examination of the Female 
Department of Union Hall Academy, under Miss 
Mary HanOa, took place on Wednesday last, and 
was closed with a musical entertainment in the 
evening. On Thursday the young gentlemen in 
thexlassic.'il iind elementary rooms were examined, 
and, as usual, it was highly satisfactory. In the 
evening the exhibition took place. The room was 
crowded, three-fourths of the seats being occupied 
by tlie ladies. Jlr. Onderdonkt has been elected 
to the office of Principal, and the session will open 
on the first Monday of November. — lYirmer. 

1832, Xov. — Vote of Queens County : 

Goreriior. 
William L. Marcy, - lCO-2 | Francis Gr.iuger, - - 1429 

Assemhlij. 
Thomas B. Jackson, - 1801 | John A. Kiug, - - - 1331 

1832. —On the night of November 6th the store 
of James Rider & Co., Jamaica, was robbed of 
goods and money to the value of S20. 

1832, Dec. 3. — Application will be made to the 
Legislature for an act authorizing the Supervisors 
to raise, by tax, $700 to pay the ciipenses of build- 
ing a fire-proof office for the County Clerk and 
Surrogate. — Fanner. 

1832, Dec. 17. — Application willbe made to the 
Legislature to grant a charter for a bank at Flush- 
ing, with a eajiital of §100,000. 

18.32, Dec. 12.— IL M. Western has found It 
necessary to open a branch of his hnv office in Ja- 
maica, at the (Jlerk's Office, where communications 
may be addressed to P. Potter. 

1832, Dec. — It is fsaid Richard Seaman, of Jeri- 
cho, has a cow that had two calves in 1830; in 
the early part of 1832 she again had twins, and 
about 'the close of the. year she iiad three more. — 
I'drnter, 

18.32, 2)ee. — Wo have seen two hogs of the 
grass-breed raised by Mrs. Rapelye, Newtown, 
from stock imported by Judge Strong, of Flusliiug. 
They are two years and live months old. One 
weighs one thousand tliree hundred pounds, the 
other a little less. — Star. 

1832, Dec— Joseph B. Shotwell. Flushing, 

*Altliougli Bo.inls of ITpalth were organized iutjupens 
Couutv. tliero woru Bcatt'^riiig cases of cholera in every 
town. 

tMr. J. N. Bi-inckerlioff. Principal, and Henry Onder- 
duuk, Jr., classical teacfier. retired from the Academy, A;jril, 
18U5. 



118 



Q U E i: X S GO U X T Y 



raised an ox which weiglicil, alive, two thou^an(l 
five huiulied and sixty poiiiKl*. 

1801, Aiif/. 2o, 56, 27. — ^\'olc for four membcrg 
of ft Couvfiidoii to iix tlio mimijcr of the .Senate 
and Asseiolilv'* and to give the members of the 
Council of Ajipointmcut cijual power of uomiualing 
with the Governor : 

John W. Smninn, - - 319 1 Janics Rayuer, - - 3fi7 
Jobu ScLi-niU, - - - :{20 | Ucwilt t'lintou, - - - 3J5 

Tlierc was no opposition. — liiL 

1S32, July 7.— The Board of rieaItU of North 
Ilcmpstoad iutund;$ to create no exjieniie, it has no 
nuisances to remove, and as the inlialiitants arc ag- 
riculturalists on a large scale, it advises them to 
stick closely to their farming from early dawn till 
evening, that the energies of their minds raaj' have 
full play ; and then the subject of cholera will not 
enter their thoughts. Dr. Chapman i.'j appointed 
llealth Oflieer. 

1S32, Jiili/ 9.— The Ilcrapsfead Board of Ilcnlth 
order that no stage-driver, boatman, or other peri^on 
.-'hall bring into the town .an}- emigrant or other por- 
tion .supposed to be .sick of choler or any other in- 
fcclions disease; and that no iish (for manuie) 
shall be left near any road or dwelling; and that all 
pcriions coming from infected districts shall be .sub- 
ject to such .examination and quarantine, as the 
Board may think proper. 

1S32, Jiih/ 18.— 'llio Oystcrbay Bo.ard of Health 
forbid the ifethodists holding their usual Camp- 
meeting in the town. They also order one or mure 
hospitals to be provided for tho.sc who may be .sick 
of cliolcra or other infectious diseases. 

1S32, Jiili/ 23.— The Jamaica Board of Health 
order that no dead body be brought into the towu 
for interment within two months, without consent 
of the Board. 

Sept. 24. — Xo street manure pIliII be landed oi 
brought within the bounds of the town uiuler pen- 
ally of $50.— Fanner. 

17SD. — Examin.ation of a negro woman, Xcll, 
(referred to on page, 71), taken at Jamaica, Octo- 
ber 27th, by \Yilliiim Ludhim, Justice : 

Xell said, on ^Monday, the 12th inst,, Sar.ih 
asked Lor whore she could get a wasp's nest. I 
told her no, 1 did not know. That Jack asked 
her if she could get poison-root. 1 told him, I could 
not, and that he was as bad as the man that killed 
bis wife and children by poisoning of them with 
two bowls of punch, one he put rat? bane in and 
the other ho did not. She .also said that Xan 
asked her if she was a going to get rats bane, and 
she replied yes, with a smile, and that she then 
told Xan that Sarah wanted a wasp's nest to put 
it in the bed of her master and mistress, to sting 
them to death. Xell said further that on Friday, 
the 23d inst., when her master and mistress were 



"The mimbcrof AsseinlilviiiL'n fi'ooi Qucciu was reduced 
from four to three. — Eil. 



out. .Sarah was a sifting meal up stairs, she then 
went up. .Sarah said to her "what a loss it would 
be for her master and mistress to lose their house." 
She said that she replied yes, it would. .Sarah 
then told her to t.ike a coal of fire and set fire to 
the tow in the upper garret, and it would burn 
like tindei |,nt Xell said she replied no, but that 
she would put lire in the closet u]) stairs in young 
master's room. Sarah then asked her where there. 
She told her u]"m the papers, that she did accord- 
ingly get a coal of ftreout of the kitchen, j>ut it in a 
clam-shell, convey it to the aforesaid ch^sct, laid 
the coal of lire njion the papers, doubled the paper 
over the coal of luo, and that it did beg-in to burn 
before she left the room, but not blaze ; that the 
paper had kindled about the bigness of the inside 
of a plate when she left the room, and when she 
went down stairs, she met .Sarah at the cellar-door, 
and told her that she had done it. It was about 
six in the aftcrnooi»«-r^Co!<r< J(eeoi\ls. 



E II 1! A T A . 

Pafc .'■>, fcir Coe read Too. 

Page 9, for William Leete read .SnmncI Jjccte. 

I'age 10, for lfi77, July 22, read IfiUT. July 22. 

r.igc 4'i. for 1778 read 1770. 

Papo 51, for one Br.ifr.nw read Isn.nc Binfran'. 

Papi! 5(i, for Dliryen rend liayca or l.avrii. 

Page &i, under 17*3, July 2.Slh, iiLstrt Thomas Cetts, 

Queens Comity. 
Page 67, erase Quaker lot. 
Page 70, for through tlirice of, read iu ; and th. cl.i^> ^hmild 

be June 17. 
Page 74, for Oct. 14th, read Oct. 15th. 
Page 77, for Kulhing rend Rothery. 
Pago 79, for Cornelius I. Bogart road Cornelins Bogart. 
Page 80, for Jnhn B. Hicks rend John Hicks. 
Page 9."), for dnnglitcr rend uicce. 
Pag» 98, for ■\Villiaiii Mitcliell rend William Nichols. 
Pago 107, for Tappau read Tappcu. 



INDEX.. 



Abramse, 13. 
Adams, 41, 65, 87. 
Alliance, 30, 88. 
Agens, 30. 
Akeily, 30, 66, 115. 
4— Albeitson, 13, 18, 23, 60. 
Albertus, 7. 
Alexander, 63, 66. 
Algeo, 26, 27, 30. 
Allen. 13,27,50, 57,67,71, 

72, 73. 78, 79, 82, 85, 98, 

102,104,105,107,110,112, 

113,114, 11.5, 116. 
AllLsou, 13, 30, 63, 65. 
Alsop,21, 56,62. 
Althouse, 65. 
Amberman, 15, 53, 79. 
Andrews. 38, 42. 
Andros, 8, 11, 12. 
Annely, 25, 27. 
Appleby, 7, 9. 
Apr^, 11. 
Apthorpe, 43. 
Arden, 38,"43, 49, 50, 51, 53, 

69, 71, 86. 
Armstrong, 33, 37, 65, 
Artlmr, 68. 
Aspinwall, 34, 43. 
Austin, 95. 
Avery, 60. 
Axtell, 56, 67. 
Bache, 51. 
Bagley, 18. 
ISailey, 31, 50, 109. 
Baker, 18, 93, 112. 
Ball, 65. 

Baldwin, 18, 21, 22, 86, 100. 
Ballard, 79. 
Balscy, 20. 
Banbury, '7. 
Baraclc," 63. 
Barclay. 60. 65, 104. 
Bardin, 63,70, 71,79, 84,89, 

97, 
Barliitc, 38. 
Barker, 8, 36, 100. 
Barnes, 94. 
Barnet, 66. 
Barnum, 101, 108. 
Barriugton, 24. 
Barre, 75. 

Bartlette, 101, 106, 103. 
Barwise, 98. 
Basset, 100. 
Bates, 13, 53. 
Battin, 84, 85, 89, 97. 
Ba.xter, 4, 46. 
Bayard, 18, 43, 44. 
?Bayea or Bayeu, James, 56, 
Baylis, 5, 17. 53, 56, 65, 79, 

109, 113, 116. 
Beatty, 50, 51, 65. 



Bedall, 13,31,50,65,67,79, 
84, 88,91, 92, 95,96, 99, 
104,111,112, 114, 116. 

Beekman, 86. 

Beesly, 36, 79. 

Bellomont, 6, 13. 

Benedict, 5, 6. 

Beunet, 53. 79, 91, 95, 104. 

Benson, 79. 

Bentley, 59. 

Bergen, 50, 53, 117. 

Berrien, 17, 34, 36, 47, 62, 67. 

Berton, 62. 

Bethune, 51. 

Betts, 5. 6, 17, 21, 24, 28, 30, 
31, 32, 33, 37, 44, 45, 48, 
51, 53, 56, 67, 68, 70, 76, 
79. 81, 84, 91, 94, 95, 109. 

Bingham, 100. 

Birch, 44. 

Bird, 103, 112. 

Birdsall, 25, 53, 54, 55, 56, 
57, 65. 

Bishop, 6, 94. 

Bixby, 106. 

Blackwell, 24, 34, 36, 56, 63. 
69, 83. 

Blackwood, 30. 

Blatcbford, 103. 109. 

Blocker, 59, 79. 

Bletsoe, 104. 

Bloodgood, 8, 20, 94, 109, 
116. 

Bloom, 92, 99, 100, 114. 

Bloomer, 42, 47, 52, 53, 56, 
62, 64, 65, 68, 75. 

Blossom, 93. 

Blydenburg, 75. 

Boardman, 100, 110. 

Boeriim, 53, 64, 79. 

Bogart, 79, 93, 95, 98, 100, 
103, 105, 106, 107. 

Bonnin, 24. 

Bonney, 61. 

Borden, 29. 

Bowdcn, 50, 67, 72. 

Bowne, 9, 12, 20, 23, 32, 34, 
42,56,57,59, 81,87,107, 
110. 

Box, 53. 

Bracket, 92. 

Bradford, 15. 

Bradhurst, 13. 

Bradley, 18. 

Braduer, 38. 

Bradwell, 89, 92. 

Bragaw, 51, 110, 116. 

Braiue, 25, 33, 34, 35, 37,74. 

Brainerd, 23. 

Bremner, 53. 

Breteau, 11. 

Brevoort, 88. 



Brewer, 95, 107. 

Bridges, 21. 

Brinckerhoti; 23, 61, 93, 98, 

100,117. 
Brooks, 23, 30, 48. 49, 50, 51 . 
Brown. 23, 30, 34, 41, 43, 54, 

57, 58, 59, 65, 66, 68, 95. 
Brownjohn, 77, 79, 84, 89. 
Bruce, 110. 
Brush, 65, 86. 
Bryant, 70, 97. 
Buckhout, 21. 
Buckle, 79. 
Buckler, 54. 
Bull, 18. 
Burgess, 8, 65. 
Burk, 32. 
Burling, 23, 31 , 44, 45, 51 . 53, 

79.81,90. 
YBuruet, 32, 33, 66. 
Burns, 43,44,61. 
Burr, 46, 55, 58, 59,71,74, 

86, 92. 
Burroughs, 5, 8, 20, 61. 
Burtis, 38 47, 58, 59, 71, 91, 

93, 100, 104, 105, 109. 
Butler. 36, 58, 91. 
Bj'vanok, 20. 
Cairnes, 59. 
Campbell, 22. 
Campfield, 59. 
Cane, 62. 
Carberry, 101. 
Cardale, 16, 20. 
Carll, 5, 14, 16, 45, 56, 96, 

100,112,113.116. 
Carman, 8, 16, 18, 33, 50, 65, 

71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 93, 94, 

95,96,97,98,99, 100.101, 

101, 102, 103, 114, 115. 
Carpenter, 5, 6. 8, 11. 13, 18, 

23, 28, 33, 43, 47, 52, 53, 

60, 65, 79, 84. 92, 96, 97, 

106, 111. 
Carr, 65. 
Carter, .5. 
Case, 8,9, 11, 15. 
Casey, 46. 
Casper, 97. 
Cassidy, 30, 31. 
Carerly, 35, 43, 58. 
Cebra, 67, 70. 
Chaloner, 61 . 
Chambers, 42. 
Champion, 8. 
Chanders. 18. 
Chandler, 57. 
Chapman, 65, 94, 113, 116, 

118. 
Charlton, 7. 53, 84. 
Chave, 50, 51. 
Cheeseborough, 67. 



Cheeseman, 39, 44, 68, 78, 90. 

Chew, 44. 

Chichester, 97. 

Chisholm, 65. 

Christie, 5. 

Cburcli, 57. 

Clap, 12. 

Clarke, 21,56, 64, 95, 97. 

C'larkson, 79, 84, 88. 

Clay, 8, 65. 

Clements. 17.20,39,67,71. 

Clinton, 27, 54, 55, 57, .59, 61, 

62, 63, 71, 73, 79, 80, 87, 

88, 94, 95, 97, 101, 102, 

103, ilO, 111, 118. 
Clowes, 13, 16. 18, 20, 21, 23, 

33, 37, 44, 49, 50. .56, 65, 

7.3, 74, 76, 77, 95, 102, 103, 

114,116. 117. 
Cobb, 43. 
Cobbet, 47, 101. 
Cochran, 57^ 
Cock, 3, 55, 56, 59, 91, 94, 

103, 104, 114, 116. 
Cockefer, 35. 
Cockram, 6. 
Codvvise, 22, 38, 92, 95, 96, 

107. 
Coe, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13,71,73, 

77, 79, 87, 89, 93, 94, 95. 
Coerteu, 8. 
Coffield, 65. 
Cogswell, 40, 50, 89. 
Cohen, 33. 
? Coleman, 88. 
Colden, 38, 39, 47, 50, 54, 

56, 63, 67, 89. 
Coles, 6, 15, 16, 22, 23, 45, 

47, 55, 67, 88, 91, 103, 

104,107, 111, 115. 
Coley, 8, 9, 107, 110. 
Colgan. 20, 21, 26, 31,32,33, 

38,51,84. 
Collier, 50, 53, 100, 113. 
Colwell, 114. 
Combs, 18, 22, 29, 30, 33, 

35, 30, 37, 39, 44, 45, 116. 
Condict, 116. 
Conklin, 9, 50, 106. 
Connor, 30. 
Cook, 20, 72, 74, 113, 114, 

116. 
Cooper, 9. 

Cornbury, 15, 16, 20. 
Cornwell, 9, 11, 20, 21, 24, 

25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 

35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 

45, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 58, 

61,63,65. 67, 69, 71, 72, 

73, 74, 76, 77, 79, 82, 83, 

84, 88, 89, 92, 93, 93, 99, 

103, 107, 112, 117. 



29 



120 

Corsn, '>l, !•■>, 01. 

Curtclvoii, 95. 

Ccislj/, -ill. 

Colter, ()5. 

Covert, 5;i, 101, 1(13, 1(15, 

iut: 

Crane, 116. 

Cranell, 16. 

Crec, 37. 

Creed, 11, 51, 53, 54, 70, 8), 
ifi, •.».■>, KUi, 104, 115, lll>. 

Cri.^iMii, A"), 

Croiiiwetl, KhJ, 103. 

Cromnieliii, 3.5, 77, 78, 79, 
pd, f4. 

Crooker, 47, 108. 

Cross, 47. 

Croswell, 86. 

Cnieor, 95. 
.Culver, 41. 

Cuminiiifrs, 33, <>'>, 79. 

Cumiingliani, I>1. 

Curtis, t)5, 11(1, 114, 115. 

Cuttinp, ^r2, 83. 

Daiue / 65. 

Dniton, .54. 

Uaveii|)(>rt, 09. 

Pavids.m, 113, 115, 116. 

Davis, Diivi.a, 5, 63, 102. 

Dawson, 45, 80, W2, 107. 

Dayton, 95. 

Deacon .55, (!i. 

De.m, 11, 3->, ,50, ,53. 

Dearing, 5. 

Degrauw, 1 16. 

Dclancev, 44, 45, 46, 52, 54, 
62, 64! 

Delaplaine, 61. 

Dcniilt, 43, 93. 

Deinott, 511, 106, 114. 

Dennis, 9, 94. 

Denton, 4, 5, 1.5, 16, 18, 28, 
29, 30, 50, 52, 53, 65, 77, 
fO, 8,5, 103, 104, 107, 112. 

Dcppvsti-r, 51 , (>5, 73, 75, 79, 
84,'95. 

Dovore, 58, 59, 75. 

Devries, 3. 

Dewint, 80. 

De Witt. 82,89, 113. 

Dibble, 1)5. 

Dicliiiisou, 15, .52, 83, 95. 

Dickson, fti, 80. 

Dingey, (>6. 

Disosway, 95, 97. 

Dilnmrs, 30, :t8, ,53,63,71, 
77, 78, 79, 80, 94, 96, 100, 
101, 112. 

Divine, 102. 

Dochartv, 115, HI!. 

Dobbs, 56. 8(1. 

Dodge, 34, 69, 93, 100, 102, 
105, 107. 

Donpun, 12, 100. 

Dorlaiid, 22, 25, 50, 51, 53, 

' 70, 83, 103. 
' Doughty, 3. .5, 6, 9, 15, 16, 
' 25, 26, 31, 50, 53, 55, 65, 

HI, 83, 85. 
, Downing, 102, IM. 
I Do.\ey, 70. 
i Drew, 116._ 

Drisius, 4,5. 

Drnniniond, 54. 

J)udley, 79, 80, 84. 

Duffee, 48. 

DutTcl, 89, 90. 

Dnubar, 30, 31, 33, 51, 52, 
53, 95, 97. 



I X 1) E X , 



Iliiulevv, 91. 

Dunn, 84, 92, 9.5, 96, 99. 

Durio, 811. 

Dnrje, 31, 32, 33, 3'^, 40, 43, 

49, 51, 53. 55, 56, 80,92, 

107, 1(19. 
Duseiiburv, :!.5, 83. 
Dver, 32, 34. 
Itvson, 1117. 
Karle, 91, 116. 
Kbbits, 106. 
Kdes, 9. 
Edgar, 80, &1. 
r.d.sall, 12, 47, 100, 102. 
Kglee, 11.5. 
Elgcnbrodt, 90, 96, 99, 100, 

107, 112. 
Elcc, 6. 
Eldcrt, 40, 48, 53, 80, 84, 

96, 106, 108. 114. 
Elms, 65, 106. 
Ellison, 5, 25. 65, 103. 
Ehvyn, 59. 
Ennnons, 53. 
Entwistle, 109. 
I'lrskiue, 52. 

Envin, 95. 

Everitt, 17, 34, 39, 48, 53, 

65, 67, 71, 80, 102, 104, 

109. 
Evers, 80. 
Faicr 96. 
lairchild, M>. 
Faitontc, 77, 78, 79, 80, 85, 

87, 90, 96. 
Falconer, Faulkner, 31, 80, 
Fanning. 2it, 53. 
Farley, 91. 
Farmer, 2(i. 
Farrington, 44, 56, 80, 83, 

87, 1(16. 
Feeks, ,5, 7, 115, 116. 
Ferris, .59. 
Field, 3.5,36,41,87,89,92, 

98. 
Finch, 30. 
Finglass, 96. 
Fish, 28, 36, 41, 47, i)-^, 70, 

76, 82, 91, 100. 
Fitch, 56. 
Fleet, 50,59, 80,91,97,98, 

99, 115. 
Flemmiug, 84. 
Floy, 13. 

Floyd, 67, 74, 76. 
Folliot, 50, 51,. 53, 67, 79. 
Forltes, Forbnsh, ;t2, 33, 53, 

80, 1(J7. 
Force, 13. 
Ford, 67. 
Fordhani, 3, 4, .5. 
Foster, 12, 21,2.5, 30,4',52, 

77,8(1, s-i, «), 112, 116. 
Fowler, 27, 34. 
Foxcrol't, 19. 
Franklin, 23, 44, 69. 
Frederick, 53. 
French, 40, 49, 51. 53, 56, 

61, 65, 67. 
Fricke, 65, 106. 
Froeligh, 52. 
Frost, 23, 32, 45, 91, 100, 

106. 
Funck, 109. 
Fmman, 6, 8, 18, 21,24,41, 

53, 70, 71, 73,80,89,96, 

97, 101, 1(16. 
Oalo, 13, 15, 18. 
OnUifar, 82. 



Gauts, 44. 

Gardener, 89, 94. 

Garret, (>.5. 

Garvie, 113, 116. 

GautVreau, 87. 

Gelston, 79, 80, 88. 

Gcriuon, 21. 

Gerritsc, 3, 36. 

Gibbs, 14, 103. 

Gilbert, .57. 

Gilzian, 85. 

Gilderslccvc, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 

10, 14, 16,21,65. 
Glcno, 53. 
Goelet, 97. 
Golder, 53, .58, 108. 
Goldsmith, 113, 116. 
Gordon, 14, 19, 
Gorsline, 71, f^, 117. 
Gracic, 96, 107, 108, 115. 
Gray, 1(10. 

Greene, .50, .52. 65, 72, 75, 80. 
Greeuleaf, 74, 76, 77, 79. 
Greenoak,:!4, 51,96, 107. 
Greenwood, 117. 
Grencll, 34. 

Greswol.l, 36, 45, 52, 65, 96. 
Griffin, 6, 115, 116,117. 
Oryce, 17. 
Gucnon, 11. 
Gunn, 108. 
Guthrie, t)6. 
Ilackett, 109. 
Iladderly, 7. 
Hatr, 22, 
Haggerty, 91. 
Hall, 13,39,96, 113, 116. 
Ilalhvorth. 109. 
Halsev, 106. 
H.nlstead, 13,20,21. 
Il.iUett, 4, .5, 6, 7, 13,16, 17, 

29, 34, 36, 42, 43, 47, 49, 

.5(1, 51,53, .57, 73, 80, 82, 

83, 90. 
Halton, 30. 
ll.aniniell, 77, 80. 
H.vnmoiid, 73,91,94,97. 
Hatiiptcin, 16. 
Uaniilton, 48, 50, 54, 55, 63, 

64, 70. 
Ilanunersly, 33, 65. 
Hancock, 58, 66. 
Hauley, 92. 

Ilanna, 117. • 

Hanse, 11, 12. 
Hardenburgh, 22. 
llarman, 18. 
Hiirper, '.Hi. 
Harriot, 33. 
Harris, 62. 
Harrison, 7, 80. 96. 
H.irt, 61,7.5, 91, 100, 103. 
Hartshorne, 81. 
Harvey, 107. 
Harper, 96. 
1 l.isbionck, 67. 
Huscock, 11. 
Havens, 81. 
ll.iviland, 15, 32, 34, 36, 105, 

107, 109. 
HawkKlmrst, 23, 24, 26, 42, 

.5.5,75, 11.5. 
Hnvnes, 55. 
Ha'vt, (w. 

Haiar.l, .53, 57, 0.5, 99, 103. 
Heard, 41, 46,49,50,52. 
Hedger, (i, 7. 
Heeded, .5. 
Hegcumn, U, 33,46,69,91, 



93, 97, 99, 100, 104, 109, 

114, 115. 
HenUricksnn, 53, 55, 61, C7, 

79, 80, 96, 97, 103, 104, 

108, 115. 
Hentz, 61. 
Hcrriniao, 80, 11.5. 
Hewlett, 21, :«), 31, 36, 37, 

:i*, 44, 4-t, 49, .5(1, .52, .55, 

56, 57, .58, .59, 60, 66, 74, 

79, 84, 90, 93, 94, 96, 97, 

98, 100, 102. 103, 104,105, 
108, 109, 111, 112, 115, 
116. 

Hevsham, 41. 

Hicks, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 
14, 18, 19, 20, 21,23,24, 

29, 31, 33, 40, 49, .50,51, 
.52, .53, 56, (i3, 66, ()9, 70, 
76, 77, 7t-, fO, 82, .>*3, 84, 
86, 91, ifi, 9<>, 97. 98, 100, 
101, 103, 104, 105, 107, 
113, 115, 116. 

Higbie, .53. 80. 108, 116. 

Higham, 11, K. 

Hill, 30. 

Hilton, (t't. 

llinchnian, 8,22,2.5,27, 29, 

30, 33, 47, 51, .53, t!4, 77, 
78, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85, 96. 

Hinton, 20 

Hire, 13. 

Hitchcock, 62, 96, 100. 

Hobbs, 5, 7, 12. 

Holmrt, 11.12,104,107,114. 

Holdren. 6. 

Holland. 65. 80. 107, 108. 

Holnian. 102. 

Honian. 1 1(>. 

Holroyil, 70. 

Honevman, 19. 20. 

Hood", n^. 

Hoogland, -Mi, 4.5, 63, 70, 79, 

80, 93. 96, 98, 104, 107. 
Hopkins, .5.5. 
llorscinanden, 33,40,70. 
Horselield, 22, 116. 
Morton, 67, 88. i 
Howard, 29, 33, 45, 66, 83, 

99, 100, 103, 107. 
Howe, 51, 52. 
Howell, 14,21,28,33,59. 
Howes, (>9. 
Hubbard, 6, 7, 10, 16. 
Hudson, 92. 
Hughs. 35. 
Hugins, 21. 
llughston, 49. 
Hurne, (>.S. 
Hump'irevs, 19. 
Hnut, 5, 20, 41, .52. 
Hunter, 17, 114, 116, 117. 
Huntington. 107. 
Ilinitting, 90. 
Ilusted, (i2. 

Ilutchings,28, 33, ,50, 59, CO. 
Hutchinson, 97. 113, 116. 
Huwilt, 5. 
Huz/.v, .52. 
Hvlcr, 107. 
Innos. 33, 49. 
Ireland, 56. 
Isaacs, 30. 
Izzard, 45, 71. '• 

Jackson, 7, 12, 13, 14, 17, ^ 

20, .56, .57, 59, 65. 74, h2, 
86, 92, 94, 100, 101, 103, 
106, 107, 112, III, 115, 
116, 117. 



INDEX. 



121 



Jackson, 7. 12,13,14 17,20, 
56, 57, 59, 65, 74, 82, fG, 
92, 94, lUO, 101, 103. 106, 
107,112,114,115,116,117. 

.James, 45, 65. 

Jarvis, 58, 60, 61. 

Jaunccy, 33. 

Jay, 80, 84, 87, 8S, 89. 

J.xyne 100. 

Jecocks. 8. 

Jepl-ias, 103, 117. 

Jenniugs, 8. 

Jenny, 20, 21. 

Jobnson, 15, IS, 2o. 30, 43, 
51, 53,72,80,92,94, 100, 
103, 107, 113. 116. 

Jones, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 
21 , 22, 24. 25, 26, 29, 30, 
31, 33, 35, 50, 51, .53,55, 
56, 57, 63, 67, 71, 73, 76. 
77, 80. .82. 84, 89, 91, 94, 
95, 96, 98, 99. 100, 101, 
102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 
109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 
117. 

Judkins, 60. 

Kearns, 95. 

Keeniei", 102. 

Keese, 96, 48. 

KeUl., 14. 

Kellog, 113, 116. 

Kelly, .54, 113. 

Kendal. 50. 

Keteltas, 33, 40, 5J, 57, 82, 90. 

Ketcham, 75. 

Kimber, 111. 

Kiuj?, 20, 96, 102, 103, 104. 
105,107,110,114,115,117. 

Kingsberry, 110. 

Kirk, 43, 70, 97, 111. 

Kirby, 23. 

Kissani, 6, 15, 26, 28, 35, 36, 
37, 40, 41 , 42, 46, 49, 50. 
51, 55, 56, 63, 66, 67, 68, 

77, 80, 84, 93, 95, 96. 97, 
98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 
104,105,107,113,116,117. 

Kneelaud, 107. 

Kolyer, 110. 

Lamberson. 50, 53, 69, TS, 
80, ea, i-05, 107, 113, 116. 

Lauo, 100. 

Langdon, 5 9,21,28,52,63. 

Larrabce, 30. 

Laton, 96, 98, 102, 103, 105, 
107, 108. 

Latting, 7, 23, 55, 66, 91. 

Lawrenee, 6, 7, 13, 15, 16, 17, 
20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 30, 32, 
33, 34, 35, 36, 37,39. 41, 
43, 47, 48, .53, .57, 58, 61 , 
62, 69, 70,71, 74, 77, 78, 
80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 
89, 90,91,96,97, 100, 101. 
102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 
109, 110, 1)2, 114. 

Lawson, 41, 51. 

Lawton, 73, 80. 

Leech. 96. 

Lcctc, Samuel, 9. 

Ledyard, 67, 71, 73,76, 77, 

78, 80, 82, 89, 110. 
hee, 21. 

Lefevre, 113, 114. 

Lefferts, 45, 47, 51, 53, 65, 

77, SO, 84, 94, 95, 100, 102, 

107, 113, 116. 
Lefford, 55. 
Legget, 109. 



Leisler, 12, 13, 14, 15, 35. 
Lent, 55, 73, 99, 100, 103, 

104, 105; 106, 107, 109, 

112, 114. 

Lester, 50, 60. 
Leverieh, 4, 5, 9, 10. 25. 77, 

100,103,104,105,107,109. 
Lewis, 21, 34, 36, 44. 52, 53, 

58, 59, 62. 69, 71, 72, 73, 

77, 80, 92, 95, 98, 116. 
L'TIoramedien, 77, 80. 
Livingston, 51, .53,99. 
Lloyd, 25, 46, 67, 83, 103, 

105. 
Lockwood, 57, 63, 83. 
Loftus, 61. 
Lokerson, 6, 10, 17. 
Long, 6, 44, 55, 56. 
Longstreet, 15. 
Loquart, 18. 
Losee, 18, 30, 53. 
Lett, 37, 53, 62, 65, 80, 104, 

117. 
Loweree, 101, 103,112, 114, 

115. 
Lo.xhani, 53. 
Ludlow, 35, 46, 49, 50, 52, 

55, 56, 61, 6>, 64, 6o, 67, 

70,79,82,87, 100. 
Ludlum. IS. 50, 53, 56, 78, 

79, SO, 86,-91, 96, 97,. 98, 

104, 118. 
Ia\S, 16, 18, 21. 
Luvster, 65, 66, 71, 73, 89, 

104, 10.5, 113, 114. 
Lyde, 107. 
Lynch, 62, 99. 
Lynstead, 18. 
Lyon, 59. 
McCarty, 35. 
McCarrol, 37. 
McConib, 80. 
McCouu, 50,55, 67, 9J. 
MoCullum, .56. 
McDaunaiigh, 34, 
McDavitt, 80, 
McDermot, 74. 
JtcDougftl, 70. 
McEuen, 6.5. _, 

McEvers, 51, 53, C5.. 
McFarren, 67. 
McGinnis. 116. 
McHarg, 66. 
Mcintosh, 63. 
McKay, 107. 
McK-night, 67. 
McLean, 65. 
McNeil, 63, 84, 96, 107. 
McNiiU, 18. 

Mackerel, 77, 80, 84, 96. 
Makcmie, 16. 
Marr, 30, 66. 

Marston, 34, 42, .59, 100, 110. 
Martin, 13, 26, 27, 33, 49, 50, 

51, 54, 5^, 59, 80, 9.!. 
Marsh, 16, 81. 
Marvin, 5, 21,65,73, 114. 
Mason, 13, 98, 99, 106. 
Mayo, 4. 
Meacock, 11. 
Menema, 73, 77, 80, 83, 94, 

95, 96. 
Mercier. 82. 
Meredith, 65. 
Merrit. 90, 100. 
Messenger, 53, 101, 106. 
Messerole, 22, 100. 
Miles, 20, 65. 
Millikin, 19. 



Miller, 9L 
Milne. 97. 
Mills, 16, 17, 18, 19, 50, 51, 

52, 53, 80,- 81,; 88, 92, 95. 

93, 109. 
Minor, 94. 

Mitchell, 21, 34, 39, 42, 53, 
.56, 58, 63, 64, 65, it'-J, 70, 
71,74,76,77,80,82,92,93, 

94, 95, 98, 99, 101, 102, 
103. 104, 105, loii, 107, 
108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 
113, 116. 

Mollineux, 113. 114.- 

Moufort, 47, 82. 90, 93, 95, 
96, 99; 103. 

Moon, 23. 

Moore, 4, 5, 23, 30, 31, 38, 
41,47,48, 49, .50, 51, 57, 
62, 64, 6), 68, 69, 70, 73, 

79, SO. 82, 85, 87, 89, 90, 

93, 98, 100, 10 (, 105, 109. 
Morgan, 116. 

Morrel, 25, 32, 34, 37, 54, 80, 
84,89,92,95,102,103,112. 
Morris, 29, 77, 95, 96. 
Morrison, 57. 
Morse, 30. 31, 32. 
Morton, 80." 

Mott, 7, 9,21,28,30,41,49, 
■ 52, 58, 59, 62. 90, 92, 93, 

94, 95, 99, 102, 105, 107,' 

103, 110, 111, 112, 115. 
Mottlev, 96. 

MoultJn, 84, 85, 91, 92. 
Mudgc, 8. 
Muirson, 67. 
^Mulligan, 72. 
■Muri'.iy, 33, 47, 80. 
Mattee, 102. 
Nafis, 95. 
Nasli, 112. 
Napier, 107, 
Nettleton, 111-.- 
Newton, 52. 
Nichols, 6, 13, 29, 32. 34, 36, 

47,51,61,93, 103, 111. 
Noble, 5. 6. 
North, 67. 
Nostraud, .53. 91, 95, 103, 

104, 107, 113. 
Oakley, 53. 

Ogdcu, 23, 28, 33, 45, .53, 75, 

80, 81. 

Oldfie.ld, 8, 17, 18, 19,33, 50, 

53, 95. 

Onderdouk, 39, 34, 41, 45, 
46, 48, 57, 61, 63, 67, 69, 
70, 71, 73, 75, 8;i, 88, 93, 
98, 99, 102, 104, 116, 117. 

Orton, 12. 

Osborn, 7, 12. 107. . 

Otterson, 116. 

Ouvet, 81. 

Palmer, 30, 58. 65, 103. 

Parish, 114. 115. 116. 

Parker, 46, 60, 95, 107, 110. 

I'arnivter, 2], -22. 

l^nrsell. 5. 13. 38, 63. 

Patrick, 8. . 

Pearce, 88. 

Pcarsall. 5, 6. 9, 12, 13, 22, 
33, 58, 59, 72, 79, 80, 83, 
90, !16. 

Peat, 13. 

Peck. 81, 108, 109, 112. 114, 
115, 116. 
edly. 10. 31. 

penny, 103. 



, 74, 80, 89, 



Perkins, 60. 

Peters, 21, 33, 42, 66, 76, 77, 

73, 82. 
Pettit, 13, 20, 50, 53, 84, 90, 
■ 96, 93, 100, 104. 107, lO'-i. 
Philips, 37, 76,94, 103. 
PIcrson, 43. 
Piiickncv, 110, 119.. 
Pine, 5. 7, 8, 15, 21, Hi. lid 

112, 11.5. 
Pinfold, 30, 34.- 
Pinhouse, 13. 
Place, .55, 66. 

Piatt, 47, 53, 56, 75, 80, 96, 

103, 105, 107, 113. 
Plummer, 65, 96. 
Polhenius, 33. 36, 38, 42, 43 

49, ,50, 53,-56, 66, 68, 81, 

83, 95, 107, 109. 
Poole, 114. 
Porter, 65, 101. 
Post, 60, 98. 
Potter, 13, 27, 117. 
Powell, 61, 65, 103, 108. 
Foyer, 17, 19,20, 21, 93. 
Price, 62, 65, 66. 
Prims, 107. 
Prince, 20, 39, 47 

92, 93, 94. 
Prior, 10, 33, 83. ' 
Probasco, 36, 52. 
Provoost, 40. 
Pnufine, 41, 95, 107. 
Purdy, 53, 65, 90,112, 113, 

116. 
Quackenbos, 113. 
Quintard, 65. 
Rainer, 13, 28, 50, 113. 
Kamage, 66. 
Ramsdeu, 5. 
Kapelye, 11, 34, 39, 40,43 

45,- 47, 48, 49, 62, 65, 67, 

68, 69, 8-J, 83, 8S, 9;i' 96 
_ 97. 100, 103, 1)7. ■ 
it.attoono, 90, 92. 
Kawlins, 60. 
Reade, 37, 48, 65. 
Keove, 33, 92, 100. 
Remsen, 24, 32, 41, 46 50 

51,5:5, 62,6-5,79, 104, "loe! 

108, 114. 
Renny, 45, 71, 83, 89. 
Rcnwick, 80. 
Reynolds. 20, 21, 22. 
Rhodes, 19, 24, 30, 53 65 

80, S:i, 6g, 104, 107, '11-2' 

113, 115, ))6. y 
Richbell, 5. 6. 

Rider, 53, 59, lfi3, 104. 109. 

lll,))7. \ 

Rikei, .;.7,-47,51,Vl,^-2, 89, 



92, 94, 95i^ll0, 



92, 94, 9^ 
Riley, 58. / 
Ritchie, 687 



Ritter, 80." 

Roach, 68, 77, 97, 100, 103 

Roberts, 13, 25, 28, 34, 36, 48. 

Robert.son, 111. 

Bobbins, 11, 30, 38, 55,75, 

116. 
Robinson, 12,33,48,5] 53 

55, 65, 66, 73, 78, 80, 10] 1 

117. "^ 

Roe; 21, 59, 69. 75, 77 95' 

103, 104, 105, Hlfi, 107'' 

110,111, 114, )I5.))7,118, 
Rogers, 9, 94, 55, 64, 1C7' 

111,113, 114, iI5, 116. ' 
Roof, 57. 



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Rotlierv, 77. 

JSiiwlaiid, y.'), 107. 

Ku.k'c, ;M. 

Kushiiiorc, 5, G, 9, 10. 

Ku.sspI. 54. 

Kvtlor, -JO, -27. na, 40, 51. 

Kvcrson, 41, IKi. 

Snckett, li, 30, 35, 3G, 43, 

58, 5i), 6-i, 96. 
Sadler, 6. 
St. Man-, 85. 
Sale, 9(i. 
f^nUer, 25. 
Snisbee, 5. 
Sali-sbiirj-, 6. 
Salt, 93. 
Salter, 5. 
Saltniarsli, 05. 
•Sainniis, 10*2. 
Saiifonl. 9, 112. 
SaiidK, 13, 30, 33, 35, 40,50, 
55. .")9, (II, (;3, (iCi, 77, SO, 
82, S5, 93, 98, 100, 107. 
Sa« vur, 21. 
Say res, 100, 107, 109. 
.Scadding, 5. 

SilitiRk, 42, 5S, 09,71,73, 

74, 77, W), 81, 8t>, 87,88, 

92,93,95,98,101,103,105, 

107, 110, 112, 114, 1J8. 

Si'liooiiiimkir, 9(i, 99, 100, 

104, 109, 112. 
SelmvltT, 13, 02, 82, 104. 
Scott" til, 101), J 09. 
Scrilia, 9t), 109. 
Scudder, 8, 9. 
Scabury, 33, 34, 36, 44, 51, 

■61, -85. 
Seaman, 5, fi, 10, 24, 31, 33, 1 
38, 40, 42, 43, 45, 47, 56, | 
59, 65, 71, 81, 86, 90, 93, ' 
94,95, 9(>. 97, 99. 1U2, KM, ' 
10.'), lO", 1119, 112, 113. 
115, 117, 118. 
Seariup, 7, 8, 9, 14. 16, 42, 
60,61,71,75, 94,96, 113, 
114, 116. 
Seely, 70, 71, 73, 98, 104,107. 
Sell, 103. 
Sellcek, 65 
Semisa, 19. 
Semplc, 29. 
Seymour, lofi. 
Sbadbolt, 16. 
Slmrjio, 45 66, 112. 
Shaw, 106. 109. 116. 
Shelton, 25, 37. 94, 9:;, 100. 
104,108,109, 113, 11.% 116, 
Slierbroiik. 67. 
Slierloik, 33 
ShLTiiian, 99, 100, 102, 107, 

110, 112, 115. 
Sboals, 49, 511, ,5(i. 
Shotwell, 117. 
Simcuc, 55, 
Simmons, 53, 60. 
Simonsoii, ()7, 75, 81, 94, 96, 
1(»7, 108, 110, 112, 115. " 
Skidmore, 8, 13, .53, .56,61, 
67;80,90,96, 101, 107,117. 
Skinner, 65, 66, 67, 79, 80, 

83, 84, 8(). 
Skirm, 106. 108. 
Sleight, 101. 1(19, 111. 
?Slot, Uendrick, 62. 
Smitli, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 
13, 14, 15, 17, 18,20,21, 
22, 25, 29, 30, 31,33,35, 
36, 38, 39, 42, 43, 47, 48. 



INDEX. 



49, 50, 51 52, .53, .'iS, .56, 
58, 62. (15, m, lu.r,", 71, 
72, 73, 74. 75, 77, 78, 80, 
81, 84, 86, 87, 88, 90, fW, 
93, 94, 96, 98, 100. |01, 
103, 106, 107. 108, 110, 
111, 112. 114, 117. 
Sncdekor, .53. .55, 63, 80, 100, 

109, 112, 113, 116. 
Siiiffiii, .59. 
Soper. 90, 116. 
Southard, 3(1, .mo, 116. 
Spnldiup, 113, 116. 
Spciicir, 73, 116. 
Sprap^r, 11, 12, 102. 
Springsteen, 107, 115. 
Spronpf, 80. 102. 
.•^proid.'. 9(i, 107. 
8(.-i-tr, 3.!. 
Starr, 6. 
Stead, 53. 
Steed. 21. 
Steele, 30. 
Stoven.s, 7, 9, 97. 
Stevenson, 39. 
Slcw.iit, 12, 32, 36, 105. 
Stickliiiir, 20. 
Still, 94. 
Siillwell, 25. 86. 
Stites, 84. 
Stocker, 67. 
Stootlioir, 113. 
Storms, 58. 
Story, 1 K). 
Stout. .59. 
Stratton, 80. 
Straw, 94. 
Strin{;h.->ni, 28. 
Strou),', t!0,8G, 100, 103, IIT. 
Storrs, 91. 

Stuvvesant, 4, 5. 6, 30. 
Sntiiliin, 1(14, 114. 
Siuton. 7, 12, 21, 55. 
Suvdani, 36, .52, 61, 62,80, 
• 87, 96. 
Sweezv, 12. 
Talbot", 14. 
Talnian, 14, 17, 33, 56, 70, 

71,74,75, 83, 107. 
Tapp, III-. 
Tapptii, 107, 115. 
Taylor, 8, 9, 16, 21 , 46, 95, 

102. 
Teiiijileton. 79. 
Terliiiiic, 49. 
Terry, 5. 

Thatford, 46. 80, 84, 96, 107. 
Tliiek.sto«, 13. 
TUomns, 13, 1,5, ,53, 110. 
Tlioini)son, 11, :!2, ,58, ,59, 60j 

75. 8i5, 99, 1 12. 
Thornc, 5,6,21,23,24,2.5,27, 
30, 34, 35, 36, 45, .52, 53, 
59, 6(!, 73, 77, 80. 93, 102. j 
Thorp, 93. . ' 

Tliurninn, 66. "^ 

Thurston, 18,80. 
Tibbals, 96. 
Tillier. 23. 
Tippct.s, (i 
Titus, .5, 13, 24, 30. 47, 79, 

80,81.96, 105. 107, 109. 
Tobias, 43, 83. 
Toi'. Samuel, 5, 
Tom, 27, 31, 3(i, 56. 
Tonipkin.i, 100, 1(»3. 
Tott.n, 13, 30,80. 
Townsend, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17 
28, 32, 36, 45, 48, 49, .50 



51, 53, 61, 63, 65, 66,67, 
6-<. 60, 7), 73, 74,7.5,76, 
77, 81, ^■2, 91, 94, 9,5,96, 
97, 'M. !<9. 1(12. 105, 106, 
107, 111, 113, 11.5, 116. 
Tredwell, 6, 12, 16. 20, 27, 
34, .52, 57, 74, 76, 77, 82, 
92,93, 102. 1(13, 104, 105, 
1(17, 1(19, 110, 111, 112, 
113, 114, IKJ. 
Troupe 33, 51, 53, 80, 84, 85, 
9<i, 107. 

TnMobull, .56, 57, 58. 

Tni.xton, 33. 

Tryiui, 47, 51,53, .54, 55. 

Tueker, 100. 

Tunis.sen. 11. 

Turner, 30. 

Turipiand, 97. 

Tuthill, .53, 80, 111. 

Tyler, 94, 101, I(i2. 

riidi'rbill, 3, 6, 10, 16, 32, 
49, .56, 70, 72, 81, 82. 83 
91,96,108,112. 

l^pliam, 57. 

I'rqniiart, 16, 19. 

I'stiik. 70, 81, 92. 

Itten, 92. 

Valentine. 13. 23, 33, .53, .58, 
59, 60, 67, (>■', 70,71,73, 
78,96, 107, 117. 

Vail, 80. 

Van Arsdale. 53, 80. 

Van lienselioteu, 43. 

Vail Hureu, IKt. 

Van Broekle, 52. 

Van lb unt, 53. 80, 87, 8S, 90. 

^'a^ Courtland, 33, 40. 

Van Dam, .53, 80, 96. 

Vanderbilt, 41, 56, 74,76, 77, 
80, 86, 90, 92, 93. 

Vanderveer, 51, 9(>. 

\'andervoort, ff>, 107. 

Vaiulerverp. 101. 

Vandcwaler. 103, 114. 

■Van lluyii, 6(). 80. 

Van. Dyke, 36, 45, 47, 56, 93. 

Van Hoescn, 65. 

Van Hook, 21. 33. 

Van llorue, .52. 

Van Lew, .53, 80, 96. 

Van Nest, 77, 80. 

Van No.slrand, 19,53, 73,78, 
84.84.91,96,100,104,107. 

Van I'elt, 70. 

Van Velser, 55. 

Van Wieklen. 53, 103. 

Van Wy ek, 22, 24, 4 1 . 49, 50, 
55,56,67,71,94, 114. 

Van Sinderen, 100, 106, 107. 

VanZandt.103,'109, 111,114. 

Verity, (>5, 96, 111. 

Verplank, 30. 

Vesev, 14. 

Vooriiie.-i, 47, 53, 96. 

^'rcdenburffb, 93. 

Wade. 100. 

Waldron, (iO, 70, 71. 

Walker, 5, 65. 

Wall, 7. 

Wallace, 19, 51. 

Waller, ()5. 

Walton, 19, -22, 23, 27, 32 
39, 46, 51. 

Wallers, 55, 02. 

Waiiser. 27, 28. 

Ward, 107. 

Wariie,71, 73, 74,75,80,81 
82, 85. . 



Wnnen, 91. 

WashinL'ton, 44, 54, 74, 75, 

90. 
Waters, 5,6, 15, 17, 19, 21, 

22, 25, 29, :iO, :{7, 43, 44, 

4(>, 55, 56, 73, 80, 84, 87, 

96, 97. 
Watkius, 40. 
Watti, 34. 
W:iy, 49, Gi, 08, 71, 103, 

114, 115. 
Webb, 88, 97, 113, 114,116, 

117. 
Webster, 113, 116. 
Weed, 104, 106. 
Weeks, 20, 21, 31, 33, 36, 40, 

49, ,50, 55, 66, 68,74, 115. 
Weller, 5. - 
W.-lling, 21, 33. 53, 80,84, 

85, 06, 106, Krr. 
Well.s, 37, 67, 70. 
Wentwortb, 27, 29. 
West, II. 
We.stern, 117. 
Wevnman, 49, .50, 61. 
Whealtoii, 30. 
Wheeler, 50. .57, 113, 116, 
White, 14, 51, loy. 
Wliitetield, 3-i. 
Whitehe.id, 7, 12, 13, 14, 16, 

17,2(1, 21, 24, 33, 42, 49, 

50, 51,52, 53, .56. 
Whil.son, 43. 
Wiekendain, 4. 
Wiekes, 77, 80, 82, 96, 100, 

104, 108, 109, 113, 114, 
115, 116. 

Wiekhain, 67, 107, 109. 
l,Wifrjrins, 21, .53. 62, 96. 
♦Wilkins, 6. 54, 80, 95. 
j Wilkinson, 59. 
Willets, 7, II, 13, 14. 17, 18, 

21, 22, 27. 29, 35, 39, 42, 
I 44, 49, ,50, 51, .52,54,56, 
' 60, (i4, 65, 07, KO. 
Willis, 15, 17, GO, 61, 94, 107, 

112. 
Williaius, 'SI, 25, 27, 28, 30, 

45, 55, 5(), 69, 80 
Williamson, 53, 80. 
Wilmot, 29. 
Wilson. 19, 26, 20, 30, 34, 

;i5, 47, 54, 96. 
Willse, 15. 
Wines, 101. 
Witnev, 5. 
Wood," 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 55, 

86, 94, 107, 109, 112, 116. 
Wooden, 99,100.. 
Woodhull, 52, 56, 77, 80, &5, 

116. 
Woodruff, 50. 
Woodward, 39, 40; 48. 
Wooft!n<laie, 40, '.H>. 
Woollev, 7, 27, 45, .52, 67, 

85,86. 
Woolsey, 20. 
Wortnian. .'14,56, 91. 
Wraxball, 23. 
Wright. 6, 15, 17,21,30,31, 

32, 34, 41, 51, 55,79,80, 

91, 100, 10.5, 114,115. 
Wvkoff. 52, 53, 80, 96, 97, 

103, 110. 
Yates, 5, 39, 48, 73, 74 
Ycoinans, 10. 
Youngs. 21, 36, 42, 45, .55, 

56, (Ui, 71,73, 75. 91, 100. 

105, 107. 



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